Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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