Sholem Asch Quotes & Sayings

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever! — Sholem Asch

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. — Sholem Asch

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. — Sholem Asch

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation. — Sholem Asch

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity. — Sholem Asch

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? — Sholem Asch

Personality is the gland of creativity. — Sholem Asch

The best security for old age: respect your children. — Sholem Asch

God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil. — Sholem Asch

Through our soul is our contact with heaven. — Sholem Asch

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision. — Sholem Asch

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. — Sholem Asch

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. — Sholem Asch

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. — Sholem Asch

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds. — Sholem Asch

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail. — Sholem Asch

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. — Sholem Asch

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God. — Sholem Asch