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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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