In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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 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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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 road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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