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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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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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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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