Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFriendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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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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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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