Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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