Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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- Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
- A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
- God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
- Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
- Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.