To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELLoyal 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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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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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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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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