To try to distill the Bible, which is bursting with life, drama, and tension, to a series of principles would be like trying to reduce a living perso… - Abraham Joshua Heschel

It would be a contradiction in terms to assume that the attainment of transcendent meaning consists in comprehending a notion. Transcendence can never be an object of possession or of comprehension. Yet man can relate himself and be engaged to it. He must know how to court meaning in order to be engaged in it. Love of ultimate meaning is not self-centered but rather a concern to transcend the self.

The Sabbath is the presence of God in the world, open to the soul of man.” God is not in things of space, but in moments of time.

The prophets never taught that God and history are one, or that whatever happens below reflects the will of God above. Their vision is of man defying God, and God seeking man to reconcile with Him.