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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Audacious Burning Clinging Faith Heart Pilgrimage Shrine Song Waiting
A soul can create only when alone.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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.
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Amazement Anything Beyond Final Radical Reality Refusing Way Wonder
I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Against Learn Mut Still Surprise
Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Church God Greater Seem Separation State
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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Apart Being Human Capacity Independence Mode Resist Self Sufficiency
Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Autobiography Course Future Life Unpredictable Writing
Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Conceive God Most Reality Substance Thing Thinghood
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Acquisition Amazed Control Life Space Wrong

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