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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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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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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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