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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Appreciation Information Mankind Perish Want
Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Heart heavy Sometimes Speak Wish Wonder
To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Doe Mean Serve Share Surrender
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Amused Appreciation Entertainment Giving People Seek
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Analysis Aware Awe Comprehend
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Autobiography Course Future Life Unpredictable Writing
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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Callousness Hatred Meaningless Overthrow Prayer Pyramid Ruin Seek Subversive Unless
By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Destination Lead Road Sacred Secular Work
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Amazement Goal Life Look Morning Spiritual World
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Deed Divine Extol Pagan Prophets Sacred Thing
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Advance Alarming Appreciation Civilization Mind State Symptom Wonder
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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Active Appreciation Celebration Expressing Reverence State
The awe of God is wisdom.
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Awe Destiny Future God Good Luck Rule Wisdom
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Ask Mindset Motivation Positive Success Wonder
However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception

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