Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins where our power ends.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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