A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAnd 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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Every little deed counts.
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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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To be is to stand for.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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