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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
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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Destroy Liturgical Movement Revolutionary Seeking
Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Concern Evil Human Being Limit Morally Suffering
It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Beyond Exist Force Mind Physical Quality
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Advance Alarming Appreciation Civilization Mind State Symptom Wonder
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Destination Lead Road Sacred Secular Work
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Deeds Speech End Fade Power Sound State
All action is vicarious faith.
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Action Believe Faith Hope Vicarious
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Divine Power Prayer Save Saved Worthy
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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Character Fashion Follow Man Memories Memory Rich Soul Stored Test
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Encounter Narcissistic Originate Power Self Self Indulgent Thinking Ultimately
When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Experience Pray Praying World
It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Dangerous Freedom Human Obligation Prerogative Regard
God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Either God Importance Important Supreme
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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Common Eternal Feel Passing Rush Stillness Ultimate
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Authority Compassion Message Name Religion Speak Voice

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