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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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.
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