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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Amazement Anything Beyond Final Radical Reality Refusing Way Wonder
The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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