Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch, also written Shalom Asch or simply Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language that settled in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 November 1880
CountryUnited States of America
Sholem Asch quotes about
heritage scriptures
Heritage is Scriptures . . . which have become absorbed into our blood.
american-novelist conquers
The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
resilience flesh patterns
Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.
jesus son men
Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him.
hammers tools nails
If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.
height details spirit
The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.
arms moral life-is
Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.
jesus light personality
Jesus Christ is the outstanding personality of our time. Every act and word of Jesus has value for us. He became the light of the world. Why shouldn't I, a Jew, be proud of that?
philanthropy god-love humankind
Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.