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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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