Quotes by : Abraham Joshua Heschel

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

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

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

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards....

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.....

Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing....

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

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

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

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his....