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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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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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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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