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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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