‘Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature,’ Rabbi Heschel writes in God in Search of Man. ‘One attitude is alien to his spirit: taking things for granted.’ There are holy sparks in every occasion and a cosmic universe in every person.
David Brooks

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David Brooks

David Brooks

Op-Ed columnist at The Times, author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain.

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