A religious man
is a person who holds God and man
in one thought at a time,
at all times,
who suffers in himself harms done to others,
whose greatest passion is compassion,
whose greatest strength is love
and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, on whom be peace.
Abraham Joshua Heschel was a friend of Martin Luther King, whose volume of sermons entitled Strength to Love is a 20th century spiritual classic. Heschel is second from the right, and MLK in the middle. The photo is called, 'Praying with their Feet'. Amen, and Amen
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