Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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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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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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