Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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