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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Absurdm Incessant Against Glorification Universal Vulgar Wage
What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Cry Remain Silence Sometimes Tell Unbroken Wish
But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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Love Rascal Relate Saint Scholar Test
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Degree Humanity Index One People Sensitive Suffering
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Center Consciousness Living Prayer Self Shift Surrender
This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Absurdity Amen Author Defiance Vocation
Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Dedicate Dedication End Power Prayer Soul True Will Worship
All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Beyond Comprehensive Event Horizon Relationship Sweep
All action is vicarious faith.
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Action Believe Faith Hope Vicarious
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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God Light Seeing Way World Worship
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Answer Answering Ask Encompass Enough Know Querry Questions Want
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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Common Eternal Feel Passing Rush Stillness Ultimate
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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Amazement Goal Life Look Morning Spiritual World
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Bridge Broken City Heart Mend Prayer Rebuild Ruined
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Encounter Narcissistic Originate Power Self Self Indulgent Thinking Ultimately
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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Activities Affair Commitment Impersonal Institutional Loyalty Religion Religious
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Always Control Criticism Inner Listen Self Voice Wise
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Become Company Ineffable Part Word
The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Destroy Liturgical Movement Revolutionary Seeking
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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Common Eternal Passing Rush Sense Simple Stillness Ultimate
Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Ask Enrapture Marvelous Number Reason Thing

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