A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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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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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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