New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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 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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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