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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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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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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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Every little deed counts.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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