When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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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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