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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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