Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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