A soul can create only when alone.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPeople are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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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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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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