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God in Search of Man, ch. 42 "The Spirit of Judaism" (1976) - Heschel, Abraham | WIST Quotations
Religion has often suffered from the tendency to become parochial, self-indulgent, self-seeking; as if the task were not to ennoble human nature but to enhance the power and beauty of its institutions or to enlarge the body of doctrines. It has often done more to canonize prejudices than to wrestle…