To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELCelebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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