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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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