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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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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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