Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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 prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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We worship God through our questions.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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