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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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