It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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