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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

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 supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Acquisition Amazed Control Life Space Wrong
To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore
We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Care Human Justice Relating Transcendent
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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Ask Enrapture Marvelous Number Reason Thing
There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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Darkness Entombed First God Hopelessness Light Peer Strangled

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