Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.”

“It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?”

“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.”

“Man is a messenger who forgot the message.”

“Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”