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