To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELHow embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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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 hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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