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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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.
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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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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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