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Faith is not belief, an assent to a proposition, faith is attachment to the meaning beyond the mystery.
Who Is Man? (1965)
Love of ultimate meaning is not self-centered but rather a concern to transcend the self.
Who Is Man? (1965)
We manipulate what is available on the surface of the world; we must also stand in awe before the mystery of the world.
Who Is Man? (1965)
My power of probing is easily exhausted, my words fade, but what I sense is not emptiness but inexhaustible abundance, ineffable abundance.
Who Is Man? (1965)
Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
The Zookeeper's Wife (2008)
Those who trust develop a finer sense for the good, even at the hight cost of blighted hopes. Charmed by the spell of love, faith is, as it were, imposed upon their heart.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Awe is more than an emotion; it is a way of understanding, insight into a meaning greater than ourselves.
Who Is Man? (1965)
One of the results of the rapid depersonalization of our age is a crisis of speech, profanation of language.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final.
The Prophets (1962)
Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
Who Is Man? (1965)
The opposite of freedom is not determinism, but hardness of heart. Freedom presupposes openness of heart, of mind, of eye and ear.
The Prophets (1962)
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
Faith is sensitiveness to what transcends nature, knowledge and will, awareness of the ultimate, alertness to the holy dimension of all reality.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
There are neither skies nor oceans, neither birds nor trees — there are only signs of what can never be perceived.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation.
Who Is Man? (1965)
Essential to education for being human is to cultivate a sense for the inexpedient, to disclose the fallacy of absolute expediency.
Who Is Man? (1965)
Knowledge is fostered by curiosity; wisdom is fostered by awe. Awe precedes faith; it is the root of faith. We must be guided by awe to be worthy of faith.
Who Is Man? (1965)
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
SQ: Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence (2000)