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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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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Care Faith Inner Open Solicitude Wonder
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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Chant Man Praise Prayer Primary Purpose Request Sin Song
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Encouragement God Love Man Person Religious Suffer Time
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Amazed Environment Nature Spiritual
Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Create Creativity Dark Death Majority Night Soul
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Ask Mindset Motivation Positive Success Wonder
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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Awe Everything Mystery Reference Sense Transcendence
The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Chief Creation God Purpose Resouces Utilization
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Decay Eternal Failing Grandeur Spiritual Time
Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Concern Evil Human Being Limit Morally Suffering
It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Beyond Exist Force Mind Physical Quality
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
Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Alien Energy Imposed Law Longer Particular Principle Revolt Society
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Advance Alarming Appreciation Civilization Mind State Symptom Wonder
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness
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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