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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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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A soul can create only when alone.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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