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Rather Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel
- The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space;…
- When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of…
- When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
- It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather…
- Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the…
- Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
- Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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