Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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