We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELNew insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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To be is to stand for.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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