It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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