Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschelwas a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Heschel, a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, authored a number of widely read books on Jewish philosophy and was active in the American Civil Rights movement...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth11 January 1907
CountryPoland
father compassion people
God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
kings prayer legs
When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
gains misery labor
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
ideas talent capacity
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
civilization worship skyscraper
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
rejection arrogance worship
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
dream league vision
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
wonder fame asks
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
wonder awareness divine
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
ideas self term
The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
sacred faces tasks
The task of life is to face sacred moments.
forgery
Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
ineffable company
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
prayer ends
Prayer begins where our power ends.