Yet 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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPhilosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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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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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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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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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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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 .
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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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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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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