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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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 become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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