Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

No God without a world, and no world without God.

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

God has no resolve; no karma attaches itself to Him.

Being God would be the ultimate.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.