God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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