Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
Abraham Joshua HeschelThe work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
Abraham Joshua HeschelWhen I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua HeschelNormal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
Abraham Joshua Heschel