Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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