248 Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel

Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language. the world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear--filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.