The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPhilosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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