To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSpiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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