Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThose who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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