248 Quotes by 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?

Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.

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

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

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

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

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.