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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter XVIn context
- Beauty
Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods.
Socrates470–399 BCDiogenes Laertius
Men of Athens, I honour and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.
Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)
- Philosophy
Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1918–2008Interview with Joseph Pearce (2003)
- Economics
I am of opinion that the revelation of God can only be established by the wisdom of the doctrine, not by miracles, or in other words by ignorance.
Baruch Spinoza1632–1677Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg , November (1675)
- Theology
My opinion concerning God differs widely from that which is ordinarily defended by modern Christians. For I hold that God is of all things the cause immanent, as the phrase is, not transient.
Baruch Spinoza1632–1677Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg , November (1675)
- Christianity
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
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one’s own life in order to make room for God’s life.
Edith Stein1891–1942The Ethos of Woman’s Professions (1930)
- Religion
Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894An Inland Voyage (1878).
- Religion
- Theology
It is very easy to tell the difference between man-made and God-made objects. The more you magnify man-made objects, the cruder they look, but the more you magnify God-made objects, the more precise and intricate they appear.
LSLuther Sutherland
- Science
God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Fireflies (1928), 25
- Good & Evil
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Stray Birds (1916), 77
- Children
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
God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Jivan-smitri
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Gitanjali (1912), 28
- Prayer