Quotes about Meaning
Above all, remember that the meaning of life is to live as if it were a work of art. You're not a machine. When you're young, start working on this great work of art called your own existence.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Above all, remember that the meaning of life is to live it as if it were a work of art. You're not a machine. When you're young, start working on this great work of art called your own existence.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is not utility that we seek in religion but eternity.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is in deeds that man becomes aware of what his life really is.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To the religious man it is as if things stood with their backs to him, their faces turned to God, as if the glory of things consisted in their being an object of divine care.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Religion is an answer to man's ultimate questions. The moment we become oblivious to ultimate questions, religion becomes irrelevant, and its crisis sets in.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Bible is the perpetual motion of the spirit, an ocean of meaning, its waves beating against man's abrupt and steep shortcomings, its echo reaching into the blind alleys of his wrestling with despair.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To employ words is not the same as to understand what they mean. Moreover, the relation between words and their meanings is elastic. Words remain, while meanings are subject to change.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
philosophy of religion comes into being when both religion and philosophy claim to offer ideas about ultimate problems.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The way to understand the meaning of torah min hashamayim ("the Bible is from heaven") is to understand the meaning of hashamayim min hatorah ("heaven is from the Bible). Whatever taste of "heaven" we have on earth is in the Bible.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Freedom does not mean the right to live as we please. It means the power to live spiritually, to rise to a higher level of existence.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel