3 December 2020 Abraham Joshua Heschel A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
3 December 2020 Abraham Joshua Heschel Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
3 December 2020 Abraham Joshua Heschel God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
3 December 2020 Abraham Joshua Heschel Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
