Quotes from Abraham Joshua Heschel
When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel