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Standing face to face with the world, we often sense a presence which surpasses our ability to comprehend.
Who Is Man? (1965)
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Faith is not a thing that comes into being out of nothing. It originates in an event.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. 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.
Who Is Man? (1965)
All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
It seems as though we have arrived at a point in history, closest to the instincts and remotest from ideals, where the self stands like a wall between God and man.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
The ultimate is a challenge, not an assertion. Dogmas are allusions, not descriptions.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Transcendence is not an article of faith. It is what we come upon immediately when standing face to face with reality.
Who Is Man? (1965)
The prophet disdains those for whom God's presence is a comfort and security; to him it is a challenge, an incessant demand.
The Prophets (1962)
Language has been reduced to labels, talk has become double-talk. We are in the process of losing faith in the reality of words.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
There are many creeds but only one faith. Creeds may change, develop, and grow flat, while the substance of faith remains the same in all ages.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Some are guilty, but all are responsible.
The Religious Basis of Equality of Opportunity—The Segregation of God (1963)
The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.
The Prophets (1962)
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Happiness is not a synonym for self-satisfaction, complacency, or smugness. Self-satisfaction breeds futility and despair.
Who Is Man? (1965)
Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
The focus of prayer is not the self. … It is the momentary disregard of our personal concerns, the absence of self-centered thoughts, which constitute the art of prayer.
Judaism (1998)
In the realm of faith, God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. To rationalists He is something after which they seek in the darkness with the light of their reason. To men of faith He is the light.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)