Abraham Joshua Heschel Asks Quotations

The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt. There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal. Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

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.