You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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