A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFriendship, 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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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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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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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