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If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book II, Chapter 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)In context
- Forgiveness
- Love
Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering, Chapter IIIIn context
- Forgiveness
I think if the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book V: Pro and Contra, Chapter IVIn context
- Good & Evil
It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book V: Pro and Contra, Chapter IVIn context
- Anti-God
Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book VI: The Russian Monk, Chapter IIIIn context
- Love
- Nature
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,⁠—
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings⁠—
I know why the caged bird sings!
Paul Laurence Dunbar1872–1906Sympathy (1899)In context
- Freedom
- Prayer
God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond our comprehension.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 6: How Will it All End?
- Theology
We stand, in a manner of speaking, midway between the unpredictability of atoms and the unpredictability of God.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Progress In Religion (2000)
- Science
I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Infinite in All Directions (1988), ch. 6, How Will It All End?
The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God’s eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon IV: True Hearing
He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Love is the root of all joy and sorrow. Slavish fear of God is to be put away. The right fear is the fear of losing God.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon III: The Angel’s Greeting
- Fear
- Love
When man humbles himself, God cannot restrain His mercy; He must come down and pour His grace into the humble man, and He gives Himself most of all, and all at once, to the least of all.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon III: The Angel’s Greeting
- Pride
As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon VII: Outward and Inward Morality
- Love
A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Talks of Instruction (Reden der Unterweisung, c. 1295), ch. 2; as translated in Patrick Grant (ed.), A Dazzling Darkness: An Anthology of Western Mysticism (1985)