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.
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About Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel was American american rabbi, theologian, and philosopher. Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Polish-American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Heschel, a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, authored a number of widely read books on Jewish philosophy and was a leader in the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Religion — Exploring belief systems, worship, and spiritual practice