In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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