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 HESCHELForfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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