To be is to stand for.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSolitude 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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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