Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• ...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Evil, Suffering, Limits

  Abraham Joshua Heschel, Harold Kasimow (1991). “No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue”, Orbis Books

• 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.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Love, Encouragement, Religious

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.289, Macmillan

• The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  People, Humanity, Suffering

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.46, Stanford University Press

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