Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins where our power ends.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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