The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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