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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELHuman being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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