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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Conceive God Most Reality Substance Thing Thinghood
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Different Hub Pray Prayer Self Setting Step World
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Degree Humanity Index One People Sensitive Suffering
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Apart Being Human Capacity Independence Mode Resist Self Sufficiency
The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Chief Creation God Purpose Resouces Utilization
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Agree Consciousness Knowing Man Normal Real Responsiveness Sensibility State Stupor Wholly
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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Common Eternal Feel Passing Rush Stillness Ultimate
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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Destroy Liturgical Movement Revolutionary Seeking
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Ability Inspirational Life Motivational Oneself Respect Self Sense
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Always Control Criticism Inner Listen Self Voice Wise
It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Confrontation Grandeur Honest Response Transcend
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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Abyss Bottom Confine Discovered Heart Human Infinite
The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Answer New Query Question Rise
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Love Rascal Relate Saint Scholar Test
It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Dangerous Freedom Human Obligation Prerogative Regard
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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Aware Company Curve Experience Heart Human Ineffable Lying Word

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