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Wonder Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
- Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart…
- 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…
- Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
- I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
- Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
- 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…
- The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
- to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.…
More Wonder Quotes
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His… — Teresa of Avila
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. — Richard Bach
- The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No… — Amitabh Bachchan
- A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot