Quotes by : Abraham Joshua Heschel

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or....

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings,....

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself.....

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers....

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ....

To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be…

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air....

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures,....

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his....