Quotes By Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel

“There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.”

“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.”

“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.”