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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Answer Compatible Grandeur Live Mystery
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Filling Grandeur Heart Patience Pregnant Try Wish World
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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Compassion Glory Humankind Power Presence Will
I am commanded therefore I am.
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Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Beginning Common Enable Infinite Simple Small World
Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Animal Box Indeed Man Primarily Satisfaction Tool
It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Amazed Beginning Fact Wisdom
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Advance Alarming Appreciation Civilization Mind State Symptom Wonder
The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Abyss Anchor Deeper Despair Heart Infinite Man Meaning Reach
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Business Doubt Inspirational Inspiring Knowledge Wonder
Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Heart heavy Sometimes Speak Wish Wonder
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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Conceive God Most Reality Substance Thing Thinghood
The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Center Function Hub Prayer Revolving Spoke Wheel
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Different Hub Pray Prayer Self Setting Step World
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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God Isolation Life Partly Religion Segregated Tragedy
Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Gravest Hatred Man Minimum Racism Reason Threat

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