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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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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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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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