Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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To be is to stand for.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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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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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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