Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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