Wish I’d said that
“In our own lives God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time.”–Rabbi Joshua Heschel
Wish I’d said that
“I believe time is the hardest thing to manage properly in our lives. I believe that the stewardship of time is perhaps the supreme test of our discipline and our real Christianity. And so I pray like the psalmist, “Teach me to number my days aright.” Teach me to set my priorities aright, teach me…
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“What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we set ourselves in life? To know God. What is the ‘eternal life’ that Jesus gives? Knowledge of God.”—J.I. Packer, Knowing God
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“If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we…
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“And the truth is that millennia ago there was a Jewish kingdom of Judea and Samaria where our kings knelt to God, where our prophets brought forth the vision of eternal peace, where we developed a rather rich civilization which we took with us, in our hearts and in our minds, on our long global…
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“One can reformulate and restyle the festivals to a certain extent, but one cannot create something from nothing… Celebrate the festivals of our ancestors and add to them something of your own… those who do not find meaning in the festivals and holy days have empty, non-spiritual souls.”—Hayim Nahman Bialik, Famous Jewish poet, 1930
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“No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit.”— Oswald Chambers
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“Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming as gold.”—Ze’ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940)
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“If we will it, it will not be just a dream.”–Theodor Herzl, father of modern Zionism
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“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” –Benjamin Franklin (1776)