Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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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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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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