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 .
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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To be is to stand for.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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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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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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