The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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