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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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