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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEach day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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