Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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