In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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 higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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