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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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Deeds Speech End Fade Power Sound State
Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Felt Leg March Praying Word Worship
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Amazement Attitude Faith History Nature Radical Religious
To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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God History Jungle Radiance Ray Sense
Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Animal Box Indeed Man Primarily Satisfaction Tool
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Agree Consciousness Knowing Man Normal Real Responsiveness Sensibility State Stupor Wholly
Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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Completly Crisis Discipline Faith Habit Replaced Worship
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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Character Fashion Follow Man Memories Memory Rich Soul Stored Test
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Darkness Entombed First God Hopelessness Light Peer Strangled
One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Become Company Ineffable Part Word
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Audacity Forfeit God Hour Humiliate Long Moral Negroes Right Spiritual
The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Abyss Anchor Deeper Despair Heart Infinite Man Meaning Reach
To be is to stand for.
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Be Nature Positive Power Raise Stand To Voice
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Behave Children Dictators Easy People Recovery Tyrants
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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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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Attend Eye Live Perceive Primarily Reality Sense Space Spelling
Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Active Appreciation Celebration Expressing Reverence State

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