As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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