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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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