The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThose of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Friendship, 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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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 sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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