Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn 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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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All action is vicarious faith.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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