« Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« Those who trust develop a finer sense for the good, even at the hight cost of blighted hopes. Charmed by the spell of love, faith is, as it were, imposed upon their heart. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« In the realm of faith, God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. To rationalists He is something after which they seek in the darkness with the light of their reason. To men of faith He is the light. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« Faith is sensitiveness to what transcends nature, knowledge and will, awareness of the ultimate, alertness to the holy dimension of all reality. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« The strength of faith is in silence, and in words that hibernate and wait. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« Faith implies no denial of evil, no disregard of danger, no whitewashing of the abominable. He whose heart is given to faith is mindful of the obstructive and awry, of the sinister and pernicious. It is God's strange dominion over both good and evil on which he relies. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« (…) that morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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« It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final. »

― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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