Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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