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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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Behave Children Dictators Easy People Recovery Tyrants
The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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Conceive God Most Reality Substance Thing Thinghood
It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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