Quotes by : Abraham Joshua Heschel

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history....

To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the essence....

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or....

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings,....

The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to....

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ....

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be…

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air....

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures,....