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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
With information we are alone; in appreciation we are with all things.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
no man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.46 Laissez-faire,
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be ...
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
We worship God through our questions.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference,
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
— 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
Short is the way from need to greed.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Life is not meaningful ... unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Labor is a blessing, toil is the misery of man.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Sabbath is the day on which we learn the art of surpassing civilization.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Awe rather than faith is the cardinal attitude of the religious Jew.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The great Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder."17
— Rob Bell
A soul can create only when alone ...
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
What seems to be a stone is a drama.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
A religious man is a person ... whose greatest passion is compassion.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
A world without time would be a world without God, a world existing in and by itself, without renewal, without a Creator.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prayer begins where our power ends.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
— 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
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him," said Abraham Joshua Heschel
— Philip Yancey
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
— 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
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
All action is vicarious faith.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The task of life is to face sacred moments.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Heschel calls the Sabbath a cathedral in time.
— Judith Shulevitz
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Life without commitment is not worth living.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is no reverence for God without reverence for man. Love of man is the way to the love of God.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be is to stand for.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The awe of God is wisdom.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel