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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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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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