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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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