Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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