We worship God through our questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELYet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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