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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELHow embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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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 soul can create only when alone.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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