Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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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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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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