One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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