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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFor many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Those 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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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To be is to stand for.
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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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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