A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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