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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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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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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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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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