Abraham Joshua Heschel
Quotes
- Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself.
- 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.
- 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.