04243 – When the Message becomes Meaningless
Heschel, Abraham Joshua

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor 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.

–from God in Search of Man: a Philosophy of Judaism

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