The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo 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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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 utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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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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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