Quotes about Reflection
We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Creative thinking is not stimulated by vicarious issues but by personal problems.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Sabbath is holiness in time.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is not we who long for a day of rest, but the Sabbath spirit that is lonely and longs for us.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is not utility that we seek in religion but eternity.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The best prophet of the future is our past.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Bible is to be understood by the spirit that grows with it, wrestles with it, and prays with it.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The obligation falls upon us to foster in ourselves the sensibilities that modernity has suppressed or even denigrated. ... Without awe, our lives are impoverished, our society decays.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is in deeds that man becomes aware of what his life really is.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Philosophers do not expend their power and passion unless they themselves are affected. The soul only communes with itself when the heart is stirred.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel