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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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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 be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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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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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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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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Every little deed counts.
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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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