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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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 either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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