How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTime is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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To be is to stand for.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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