Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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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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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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