The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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God 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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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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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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