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 HESCHELProximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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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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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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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.
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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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