616 definitions
The book's index
Man Is Not Alone
319 concepts · 616 definitions
- abidingness1
- agnosticism2
- alibi1
- allusiveness1
- altruism1
- amazement1
- animals1
- anxiety1
- appreciation1
- arrogance1
- art2
- artificial need1
- artist1
- aspiration1
- astronomy1
- atheism3
- authentic faith1
- awareness of God2
- awe4
- belief3
- belief in god1
- belonging1
- Bible3
- blame1
- breath of God1
- brotherhood of man1
- burning bush1
- callousness1
- center1
- character1
- childhood1
- civilization1
- cliche1
- code1
- collective memory1
- commitment2
- community of faith1
- compassion2
- comprehension1
- conceit1
- concept of God1
- concern for others1
- conscience1
- consciousness1
- contentment1
- creation1
- creative insight1
- creativity1
- credulity1
- creed4
- cruelty1
- cultural need1
- culture1
God (n.) holds together what we hold apart: in Him power is love and justice is mercy.
God (n.) has not gone quiet; we have gagged Him, and the fog between good and evil is our own work.
God (n.) is right here, said the Rabbi of Kobrin, holding up a piece of bread at the table.
God (n.) walks behind us; it is the world that stands in front, where we are always looking.
Faith (n.) is mostly memory; the Bible's demands can be summed up in one word: Remember.
Faith (n.) says yes to God, not to a proposition about Him.
Faith (n.) is a two-way trust: man can lean on God only if God can lean on man.
Faith (n.) is the soul blushing before God.
Man (n.) is pregnant with God's dreams, and his life is their labor.
Man (n.) is a sentence with a subject and no predicate yet, searching for what he is for.
Man (n.) surpasses himself, as a stone suffices itself.
Man (n.) is creation's exclamation mark, one cry inside its long speech.
Religion (n.) begins not with awe but with the question of what to do about it.
Religion (n.) can lie, and martyrdom can bless a murder.
Religion (n.) begins where experience ends, and experience ends in the awareness of being perceived.
Religion (n.) is what keeps us from being pleased with ourselves.
Life (n.) is concern, as stone is inertia.
Life (n.) is an assignment, not a pension; a duty, not a pastime; an order, not a favor.
Life (n.) is built from needs as a house from bricks, but a heap of either is not the thing.
Ineffable (n.) speaks in a forgotten mother tongue; in moments of insight we almost recall the words.
Ineffable (n.) is met, not made: amazement answers it rather than invents it.
Ineffable (n.) marks where thinking peaks, not where ignorance foams.
Ineffable (n.) makes sense without making arguments; it is meaningful but not reasonable.
Mystery (n.) is not the enemy of knowledge but its soil; the tree of knowledge grows from it.
Mystery (n.) cannot be cracked by our categories; trying is like biting a wall.
Mystery (n.) is not only out there: thinking itself baffles the one who thinks.
Mystery (n.) is the one thing everything shares: that it is at all.
Reason (n.) needs faith in order to hear, and faith needs reason in order to speak.
Reason (n.) quarrels mainly with belief, hardly at all with faith.
Reason (n.) bends the world to fit our concepts; wonder bends the mind to fit the world.
Reason (n.) stops at the shore of the known; it cannot swim, and only the sense of the ineffable carries us further.
Piety (n.) is faith put into practice, spirit given a face.
Piety (n.) is not having an experience but acting on it.
Piety (n.) is no more a skill than architecture is, and no more a mood than moonlight is melancholy.
Piety (n.) is a way of living that could bear God's presence at any moment.
Wonder (n.) is a compass, and meaning is its north.
Wonder (n.) is what it feels like to be questioned by the world rather than to question it.
Wonder (n.) dissolves the line between object and subject; in it the world and the I share one being.
Wonder (n.) is not aesthetic pleasure but endless tension, a shock at how inadequate our awe is.