When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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