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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Destination Lead Road Sacred Secular Work
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Begin Done Insight Look Man Satisfaction
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Answer Humble Inconceivable Living Prayer Surprise
Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Appreciation Die Information Mankind
And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Entirely Law Negative Regard Reject
God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Air Compassion Everywhere Father God Noble People Sentiment
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Disaster Earthquake Excellent God Good Nice Uncle
Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Clear Common Loyal Man Presence Ultimate
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Gain Happiness Labor Love Misery
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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