Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPhilosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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