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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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