5 Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes on Spirituality

Abraham Joshua Heschel quotes on spirituality

2. 'Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine. ... to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.'

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

9. 'The deepest passion in any human being is the craving for meaning of human exsistence- God is the meaning beyond'

12. 'The road to the sacred leads through the secular.'

15. 'The greatest problem is not how to continue but how to exalt our existence. The call for a life beyond the grave is presumptuous, if there is no cry for eternal life prior for our descending to the grave. Eternity is not perpetual future but perpetual presence. He has planted in us the seed of eternal life. The world to come is not only a hereafter but also a herenow.'