It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within 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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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