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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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