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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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