Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe worship God through our questions.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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To be is to stand for.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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