To be is to stand for.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSpiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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Every little deed counts.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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