Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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 is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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