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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan’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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Every little deed counts.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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