There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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We worship God through our questions.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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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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