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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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