The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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 become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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