Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes About Compassion

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  • 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 the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan
  • When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.4, Macmillan
  • 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 others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.289, Macmillan
  • God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.

  • A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.

    New York Journal-American, April 5, 1963.
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