Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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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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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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