The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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