To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTrust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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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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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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