Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThings, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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