To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELRemember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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