Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELProximity 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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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