To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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