People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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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