When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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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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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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