The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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