At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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