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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Absurdm Incessant Against Glorification Universal Vulgar Wage
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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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Doe God Insight Matter One Realize World
It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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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 opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Blessing Divine God Importance Need Question Spiritual Worship
I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Cease Evil Individual Morning Sunshine
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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Amazed Beginning Fact Wisdom
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Certain Challenge Continue Darkest Dawam Faith Goodness Night
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Art Knowledge never Private Property Sky Teacher Teaching
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Mean Real Voice
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Leg Lip March Montgomery Prayer Selma Song Walking
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
We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Care Human Justice Relating Transcendent
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Love Rascal Relate Saint Scholar Test
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Destroy Liturgical Movement Revolutionary Seeking
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Agony Answer Bear Blasphemy Commit Country Enable Holocaust State Supreme
That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Equation Existence Man Own Self Thinking Transcend Trap

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