Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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