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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMuch of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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