Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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