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The body is a sanctuary, the doctor is a priest.

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The search of reason ends at the shore of the known.

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Prayer is an invitation to God to intervene in our lives.

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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.

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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

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To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.

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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!

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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.

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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.

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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

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We must continue to remind ourselves that in a free society all are involved in what some are doing.

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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

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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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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

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Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

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