God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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