Maxioms by Dag Hammarskjold
The "great commitment" is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one--and can all too easily shut our hearts to read more
The "great commitment" is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one--and can all too easily shut our hearts to the latter. A willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice can be associated with, and even produce, a great hardness of heart.
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on read more
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 illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder the source of which is beyond all reason.
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have read more
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
Do not seek death. Death will find you.
But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
Do not seek death. Death will find you.
But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
