The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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