Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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