Abraham Joshua Heschel Famous Quotes



Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

"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."

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.


Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotations






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