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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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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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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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