To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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