Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

In a free society, some are guilty. But all are responsible.

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.

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

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