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.

His father MoAbraham Joshua Heschel Mordechai Heschel died of influenza in 1916. He discusses ways that people can seek God's presence and the radical amazement that we receive in return. "
"When I marched in Selma my legs were praying.

Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11 1907 – December 23 1972) was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century.