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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Managed Object Put Second Surround Use Way
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Compassion Completely Creed Habit Ignored Name Past Replaced Today
To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Challenge Completely Easy Enjoy Enjoyment Integrity Life Retain Spiritual
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Clinging Endless Faith Heart Shrine
Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Create Creativity Dark Death Majority Night Soul
Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Awareness Companionship Divine Faith God Man Mind Mutuality Quality
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Disaster Earthquake Excellent God Good Nice Uncle
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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Absurdity Art Beyond Count Deed Meaning Power Remember
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Affording Evil Indifference Justification Silent Society
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Apprehend Depth Intuition Love Probe Religion Rigor
Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Dedicate Dedication End Power Prayer Soul True Will Worship
Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Maturity Retire Sudden Tranquility Wisdom
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
The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Correlated Inspire Inspired Rest Sabbath Seventh Weekday
Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Acquisition Amazed Control Life Space Wrong
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

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