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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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It 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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Every little deed counts.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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