Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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