The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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