Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPhilosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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