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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Among the many things that religious tradition holds in store for us is a legacy of wonder. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin. Modern
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The value is in the worth, not in the number.
- Aesop
It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
But what is the finest book, or picture, or house, or estate, to me, compared to my wife, my parents, or my friend.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman
I'll tell every one in the world that you are the only one that matters.
- Ernest Hemingway
None of it was important now. The wind blew it out of his head.
- Ernest Hemingway
For we have been there in the books and out of the books—and where we go, if we are any good, there you can go as we have been. A country, finally, erodes and the dust blows away, the people all die and none of them were of any importance permanently, except those who practised the arts
- Ernest Hemingway
The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.
- Andrew Murray