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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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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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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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