
“In the Hebrew mind hesed is always something you do. It is a verb. It is loading wounded people on donkeys, running to greet runaway children, forgiving enormous debts, paying someone who worked an hour as much as the ones who worked all day, giving a party to those who can’t pay you back. It is a resonant response to the overwhelming kindness of the God of Exodus 34, who is full of hesed.”
― Inexpressible: Hesed and the Mystery of God's Lovingkindness
― Inexpressible: Hesed and the Mystery of God's Lovingkindness
“Disillusioned by all our other efforts, we now see that the only hope left for the human race is to become like Christ.”
― Letters by a Modern Mystic
― Letters by a Modern Mystic
“The depth and intensity of the friendship will depend upon variety and extent of the things we do and enjoy together. Will the friendship be constant? That again depends upon the permanence of our common interests, and upon whether or not our interests grow into ever-widening circles, so that we do not stagnate. The highest friendship demands growth. “It must be progressive as life itself is progressive.” Friends must walk together; they cannot long stand still together, for that means death to friendship and to life.”
― Letters by a Modern Mystic
― Letters by a Modern Mystic
“This philosophy that one can begin all over instantly at any moment is proving of great help.”
― Letters by a Modern Mystic
― Letters by a Modern Mystic

“The good husbandman may pluck His roses and gather in His liles at midsummer, and, for ought I dare say, in the beginning of the first summer month; and He may transplant young trees out of the lower ground to the higher, where they have more of the sun, and a more free air, at any season of the year. What is that to you or me? The goods are his own.”
― The Loveliness of Christ
― The Loveliness of Christ

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