Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThose who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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