Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
Abraham Joshua HeschelFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAll events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
Abraham Joshua HeschelThe test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
Abraham Joshua HeschelPrayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
Abraham Joshua Heschel