There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Every little deed counts.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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