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God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
- Prayer
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
Augustine of Hippo354–430X, 27, as translated in Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J. (1980) edited by William J. Kelly
- Love
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
Augustine of Hippo354–430De Libero Arbitrio (388—395)
- Theology
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Augustine of Hippo354–430Enchiridion (c. 420 ), Ch. 27
- Good & Evil
All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Good Sense without God (Le Bon Sens, 1772), sect. 30
- Atheism
- Children
Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Le Système de la nature (The System of Nature, 1770)
- Anti-God
- Knowledge
The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Letter to William James (24 March 1907).
- Faith
Think not to match yourself against gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
Homer900–800 BCThe Iliad (750 BC), Iliad, V. 440–442 (tr. Samuel Butler); Apollo to DiomedesIn context
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
Homer900–800 BCThe Odyssey (8th century BC), Book IIn context
- Responsibility
Glory be to God for dappled things
Gerard Manley Hopkins1844–1889Pied Beauty (1877)In context
- Beauty
- Nature
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed.
Gerard Manley Hopkins1844–1889God’s Grandeur (1877)In context
- Nature
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored
Julia Ward Howe1819–1910Battle Hymn of the Republic (1862)In context
- War & Peace
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), A Way to Prevent War (01 December 2013), p. 145In context
- Prayer