Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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