Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFew are guilty, but all are responsible.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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We worship God through our questions.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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