The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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