There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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