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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELReality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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 forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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