Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAwe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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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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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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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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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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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 true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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