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One of the results of the rapid depersonalization of our age is a crisis of speech, profanation of language.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)

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Faith is not belief, an assent to a proposition, faith is attachment to the meaning beyond the mystery.

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Love of ultimate meaning is not self-centered but rather a concern to transcend the self.

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We manipulate what is available on the surface of the world; we must also stand in awe before the mystery of the world.

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My power of probing is easily exhausted, my words fade, but what I sense is not emptiness but inexhaustible abundance, ineffable abundance.

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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.

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