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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Stray Birds (1916), 51
Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for himself is love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves and carry with it all that is ours.
Jeremy Taylor1613–1667Holy Living (1650), ch. 4, section 3.
- Love
Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster?
Jeremy Taylor1613–1667Sermon XX, Part II
Charity is the great channel through which God passes all his mercy upon mankind.
Jeremy Taylor1613–1667Holy Dying (1651), chapter 2, section 3.
- Charity
The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955“The Evolution of Chastity” (February 1934), in Toward the Future (1975), trans. René Hague
- Love
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
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
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature⁠—trees, flowers, grass⁠—grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper’s wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
Mother Teresa1910–1997Statement of 1977, as quoted in Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2011) by Susan Ratcliffe, p. 373
- Charity
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Vanity Fair (1848), Chapter XXXVIIIn context
- Children
- Family
The joy and function of poetry is, and was, the celebration of man, which is also the celebration of God.
Dylan Thomas1914–1953Poetic Manifesto (1951)
- Poetry
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears
I hid from Him, and under running laughter.
Francis Thompson1859–1907The Hound of Heaven (1890)In context
- Faith
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005
- Prayer