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To be is to stand for.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Catacomb Civilization Concern Human Remain Skyscraper Worship
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Awareness Begin Divine Hard Work Trust Wonder
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
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
Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Bible Compromise Demand Imperative Memory Remember
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Discipline Fruit Inspirational Life Respect Warrior
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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Apart Being Human Capacity Independence Mode Resist Self Sufficiency
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Everytime Forgot Loss Man Memory Message Messenger
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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Critical Experiment Initiate Knowledge People Qualities Risk
I am commanded therefore I am.
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Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore
A soul can create only when alone.
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Alone Create Feeling Proximity Soul Understand
However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Divine Power Prayer Save Saved Worthy
I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Against Learn Mut Still Surprise
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
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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Callousness Hatred Meaningless Overthrow Prayer Pyramid Ruin Seek Subversive Unless

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