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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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 riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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