For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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