Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThings, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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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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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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