"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."

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Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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“Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.”
“Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.”
“I don't know why people thought I was retiring.”
“It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.”
“I've thought about doing a subscription service, where people pre-pay and then we send them 12"s as they're finished, with one song on each side. That would be really fun. But we'll need a significant time off from touring to be able to fulfill that.”
“When you hit rock bottom, you have nowhere to go but up.”

Source : Pattie Mallette, A. J. Gregory (2012). “Nowhere but Up: The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom”, p.76, Baker Books
“When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.”

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