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All Quotes by author - 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. "
Time
God
Love
" A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. "
Love
Care
Children
" 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. "
Darkness
God
He
" God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance. "
Supreme
Unless
He
" He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor. "
Satisfied
Who
Light
" It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for? "
Question
Know
Enough
" Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. "
Blessing
Live
Just
" Man is a messenger who forgot the message. "
Forgot
Message
Messenger
" 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. "
Failure
Sin
Man
" Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. "
Threat
Man
Hatred
" Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. "
Self-Respect
Respect
Fruit
" The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. "
Prayer
Issue
God
" The road to the sacred leads through the secular. "
Leads
Road
Sacred
" When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. "
People
Clever
I Am
" Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. "
Inspirational
Knowledge
Wonder
" Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. "
Way
Religion
World
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