Heschels Quotes & Sayings

That's what happens to dreams," Charlotte said. "Life gets in the way. — Jodi Picoult

Forgiveness is the attribute of the stong. — J. Sterling

Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch. — Kenneth Noland

None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. — Herman Melville

You see, there's a drill:
1. I [Amy] will say 'Right then, let's go and rescue him [Rory].'
2. The Doctor will say 'Ah yes, but ... '
3. And then he'll list the fourteen things that we have to do before we resuce Rory
4. And why they're all more important than rescuing Rory
5. The list normally includes wounded puppies
6. An exploding bus full of grannies
7. You know what I mean
8. So we'll go and do those instead
9. Cos they're all so important
10. And Rory has to come last. — James Goss

The fundamental question in everything we do must be: Will this honor God? Does this display Jesus Christ? Does this make people see how awesome the LORD is? Failure to answer "Yes!" invites Ichabod. I have many, many wonderful — James MacDonald

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you ... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. — Abraham Lincoln

Two days after his twelfth birthday, a fortnight before his father was jailed for debt, Charles Dickens was sent to work in a blacking factory. There, in a rat-infested room by the docks, he sat for twelve hours a day, labelling boot polish and learning the pain of abandonment. While he never spoke publicly of this ordeal, it would always be with him: in his social conscience and burning ambition, in the hordes of innocent children who languished and died in his fiction.
Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth. And the outcome can't be called. Some of us end up like Dickens, others like Jeffrey Dahmer. It's not a question of good or evil, Pete believes. Just the random brutality of the universe and our native ability to withstand it. — Armistead Maupin

Sin pierced the very heart of God. God felt every piercing nail and spear thrust. God felt the burning sun. God felt the mocking derision and the body blows. — Billy Graham

In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one. — Tom Robbins

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present? — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I love to read and teach experimental fiction but yes, neither this work nor my first novel is really that experimental. It uses some experimental techniques but in the end, I would not say that it is experimental. I'm not sure why. I do a lot of writing on my own, and I have always just written this way. — Porochista Khakpour

I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington. — John F. Kennedy

Only when the honey turns to dust are you free. — Rebecca Solnit