Abraham Joshua Heschel Religious Quotations

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

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

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.