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

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Source : "SQ : Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence". Book by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, 2000.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Thinking Quotes #Asking Questions Quotes #Answers Quotes

“That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.”
“You are not invisible to your Heavenly Father. He loves you.”
“Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.”
“In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.”
“When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us.”
“It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine: First and most important, my family; also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.”
“Get out, realize your dream, and go for it”
“I don't need someone that sees what's good about me. I need someone that sees the bad and still wants me.”

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