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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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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