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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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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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We worship God through our questions.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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