The awe of God is wisdom.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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