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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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