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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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