Things are marvels, moments are tokens of grace.

A.J. Heschel, Depth Theology, in The Insecurity of Freedom, FS&G, p.125

In thinking about the living  God we must look to the prophets for guidance.

A.J. Heschel, God in Search of Man, FSG, p. 163

The prophet is a witness. and his words a testimony.

A.J. Heschel, The Prophets, The Jewish Publication Society of America, p. 22

The world is a mystery, a question, not an answer.

A.J. Heschel, God in Search of Man, FSG, p. 110

What gives birth to religion is not intellectual curiosity but the fact and experience of our being asked.

A.J. Heschel, God in Search of Man, FSG, p. 112

The primary task of religious thinking is to rediscover the questions to which religion is an answer, to develop a degree of sensitivity to the ultimate questions which its ideas and acts are trying to answer.

A.J. Heschel, Religion in a Free Society, in The Insecurity of Freedom, FS&G,  p. 4 

[To the pious man] ideals are strides on the way, never the destination.

A. J. Heschel, Man is Not Alone, FS&G, p 293