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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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