Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe worship God through our questions.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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