The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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