Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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