Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELHow embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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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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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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