Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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We worship God through our questions.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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