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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen 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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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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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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By the word of God the world was created.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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