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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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