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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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