The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELto 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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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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