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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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We worship God through our questions.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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 supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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