Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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