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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
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Warszawa
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information but only for want of appreciation.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. 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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I did not ask for success I asked for wonder.
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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. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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