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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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