Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSolitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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