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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Authority Compassion Message Name Religion Speak Voice
To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Common Eternal Feel Passing Rush Stillness Ultimate
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Live Must Often People Philosophy Relevant Wisdom World
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
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
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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Ability Awe Conceit Conseil Diminish Forfeit Market Place Revere Sense Universe
Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Commitment Decision Living Love Risk Worth
Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Cure Hysteria Incursion Necessary Period Recovery Solitude
To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Animate Being Divine Margin Mystery Notice Praying Sense Wonder
To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Business Cheating Disaster Exploitation Injustice Poor Single
Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Explain Option Self Sufficiency Wonder
The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Competition Face Moment Result Sacred Task
We worship God through our questions.
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Blessing Divine God Importance Need Question Spiritual Worship
Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Dedicate Dedication End Power Prayer Soul True Will Worship
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

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