Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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