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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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.
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