Quotes about Ethics
Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The grand premise of religion is that man is able to surpass himself.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The love of truth is an act of the spirit.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Ye shall kindle no fire—not even the fire of righteous indignation.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Right living is a way to right thinking.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is in deeds that man becomes aware of what his life really is.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Yet our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but rather how to remain human in the skyscrapers. NOTES 1 Portions of this section are based on Heschel, Man Is Not Alone (New York: Farrar, Straus, 1951).
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Above all it never ceases to proclaim that worship of God without justice to man is an abomination; that while man's problem is God, God's problem is man.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
One should always do the good, even though it is not done for its own sake.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Freedom does not mean the right to live as we please. It means the power to live spiritually, to rise to a higher level of existence.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
— Abraham Lincoln