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.

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

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Celebration is a confrontation giving attention to the transcendent meaning of ones actions.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

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.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

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

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

We worship God through our questions.

When I was young I used to admire intelligent people as I grow older I admire kind people.

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?

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a welth of information, but to face sacred moments.

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

It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.

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.

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

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.