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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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 is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Every little deed counts.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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