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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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We worship God through our questions.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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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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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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