Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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.
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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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