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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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