For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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