Isaac Hecker quotes
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“This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries.”
-- Isaac HeckerSource : Isaac Thomas HECKER (1857). “Aspirations of nature”, p.11
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“Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them is in vain. If their cry be drowned by the noise of the world, they do not cease to exist. They must be answered.”
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“Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.”
-- Isaac HeckerSource : Isaac Thomas HECKER (1857). “Aspirations of nature”, p.24
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“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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“I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise”
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“I just bared my soul to you and all I get is an ‘okay’?”
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“As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.”
Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
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“A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.”
Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.121, Random House India
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