Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo be is to stand for.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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We worship God through our questions.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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