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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Bridge Broken City Heart Mend Prayer Rebuild Ruined
To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Church God Greater Seem Separation State
However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Conceive God Most Reality Substance Thing Thinghood
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Advance Alarming Appreciation Civilization Mind State Symptom Wonder
Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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