The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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