It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Forfeit 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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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