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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Horrified Horror Left Loss Sense
There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Answer Awareness Built Consciousness Gratitude Indebtedness Man Owning Sense
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Center Consciousness Living Prayer Self Shift Surrender
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Deed Divine Extol Pagan Prophets Sacred Thing
Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Art Defined Giving Outlive Philosophy Problem Question Right Solution
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Degree Humanity Index One People Sensitive Suffering
We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Air Spring Sunday
To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Answer Compatible Grandeur Live Mystery
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Filling Grandeur Heart Patience Pregnant Try Wish World
But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Affection Care Culture Gold Helpless Incurable Old
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Encounter Narcissistic Originate Power Self Self Indulgent Thinking Ultimately
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Anger Buddhist Ceased Changing Controversy Life Striving Truth
Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Attitude Existing Information Prior Soul
We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Darkness Entombed First God Hopelessness Light Peer Strangled
Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Experiment Friendship Mentality Puzzle Syllogistic
Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Human Being Involve Living Responsible Role Understanding World

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