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Religion Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel
- 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.
- Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
- A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to…
- Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
- Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
- The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
- God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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