Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
Abraham Joshua HeschelSpeech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
Abraham Joshua HeschelPhilosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
Abraham Joshua HeschelIn any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
Abraham Joshua HeschelWhen faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
Abraham Joshua Heschel