In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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