Heschel’s Wonder-11/15/20
Defiance of Despair
A religious man
is a person who hold God and man
in one thought at one time,
at all times,
who suffers in himself harms done to others,
whose greatest passion is compassion,
whose greatest strength is love
and defiance of despair.
I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology
Abraham Joshua Heschel,
Edited by Samuel H. Dresner