It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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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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By the word of God the world was created.
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