God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhat we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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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.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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