Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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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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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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