Isaac Hecker Quotes

• This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries.

  Isaac Hecker

  Life, Soul, Earth

  Isaac Thomas HECKER (1857). “Aspirations of nature”, p.11

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• Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them is in vain. If their cry be drowned by the noise of the world, they do not cease to exist. They must be answered.

  Isaac Hecker

  Religious, Religion, Needs

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• Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.

  Isaac Hecker

  Heart, Silence, Soul

  Isaac Thomas HECKER (1857). “Aspirations of nature”, p.24

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