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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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 beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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