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The divine in man is our sole ground for believing that there is anything divine in the universe outside of man.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913)
- Faith
One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.
Wernher von Braun1912–1977From a letter to the California State board of Education (14 September 1972)
- Science
The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1916)
- Love
One difference between God’s work and man’s is, that, while God’s work cannot mean more than he meant, man’s must mean more than he meant.
George MacDonald1824–1905The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
- Art
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.
God alone exists truly. Man manifests Him in time, space and matter.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Entry in Tolstoy’s Diary (1 November 1910)
Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit.
Simone Weil1909–1943Letter to a Priest (1951), Section 8
- Religion
Little flower — but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892“Flower in the Crannied Wall” (1869)
- Nature
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 376
- Prayer
Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892Gleanings Among the Sheaves (New York: Sheldon and Company, 1869), “Holiness”, p. 73
- Christianity
God created man to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969The Chance for Peace (1953)
For the true mystic the principle continues to hold: the creature must be silent so that God may speak.
Max Weber1864–1920Max Weber, The Rejection of the World and Theodicy, 1916.
- Religion
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
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers; it is the only prayer that deserves an answer, — good, honest, noble work.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
- Prayer
- Work
The atheist who affects to reason, and the fanatic who rejects reason, plunge themselves alike into inextricable difficulties.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
- Atheism
- Religion
Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet —
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892“The Higher Pantheism”, st. 6 (1867)
- Prayer