The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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And 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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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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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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To be is to stand for.
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Instead 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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