The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELInstead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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