We are either the last, the dying, Jews or else we are those who will give new life to our tradition.

A.J. Heschel, God in Search of Man, FSG, p 421

To be a Jew is to be committed to the experience of great ideas.

A.J.Heschel, God in Search of Man, FSG, p 422

The question may be asked:  Is it plausible to believe that the eternal should be concerned with the trivial ? Should we not rather assume that man is too insignificant to be an object for His concern ? The truth, however, is that nothing is trivial.

A.J.Heschel, God in Search of Man, FSG, p. 413

The Covenant is a holy dimension of existence. Faith is the consciousness of living in that dimension, rather than an assent to propositions. Important as is the intellectual crystallization of faith in terms of creed, what characterizes Judaism, I believe, is the primacy of faith over creed.

A.J.Heschel, The God of Israel and Christian Renewal, in Moral Grandeur & Spiritual Audacity, FSG, p. 270

The Bible, speaking in the name of a Being that combines justice with omnipotence, is the never-ceasing outcry of No to humanity.

A.J.Heschel , A Preface to an Understanding of Revelation, in Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity, FS&G, p. 189

God is the meaning beyond the mystery.

A.J.Heschel, The God of Israel and Christian Renewal, in Moral Grandeur & Spiritual Audacity, FSG, p. 270

Faith is both certainty and trial: certainty in spite of perplexities, a trial demanding sacrifice, strain, wrestling.

A.J.Heschel, The God of Israel and Christian Renewal, in Moral Grandeur & Spiritual Audacity, FSG, p. 270