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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
Judaic Scholar
Philosopher
Rabbi
University Teacher
Warszawa
Abraham Heschel
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
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