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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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To be is to stand for.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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