It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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