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 HESCHELIndeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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