It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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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 pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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