Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIndifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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