Article March 14, 1988 Issue

It is through the prophets that we may be able to...

Abraham Joshua Heschel

God in Search of Man

It is through the prophets that we may be able to encounter Him as a Being who is beyond the mystery. In the prophets the ineffable became a voice, disclosing that God is not a being that is apart and away from ourselves, as ancient man believed, that He is not an enigma ...; not only a power to which we are accountable, but also a pattern for our lives. He is not the Unknown; He is the Father, the God of Abraham; out of the endless ages came compassion and guidance. Even the individual who feels forsaken remembers Him as the God of his fathers.

Abraham Joshua Heschel
From God in Search of Man

Copyright 1955 by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Copyright renewed © 1983 by Sylvia Heschel. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.

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