Quotes from 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.

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.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

Martin Luther King represents a voice, a vision, and a way... I am convinced that the whole future of America depends on how seriously we take this voice, this vision, and this way.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.