Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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