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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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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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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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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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