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Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), Higher LawsIn context
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the God of the philosophers is the same God.
Paul Tillich1886–1965Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality (1955), p. 80
- Theology
Man is infinitely concerned about the infinity to which he belongs, from which he is separated, and for which he is longing.
Paul Tillich1886–1965Systematic Theology (1951–63)
- Theology
All tales may come true; and yet, at the last, redeemed, they may be as like and unlike the forms that we give them as Man, finally redeemed, will be like and unlike the fallen that we know.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973On Fairy-Stories (1939)
- Theology
- Writing
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one’s sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Bk. XIV, ch. 15
- Life & Death
- Love
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894), Chapter XII, Conclusion—Repent Ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand
- Life & Death
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910What Men Live By (1881), Ch. XII
- Love
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)
Why is it when we talk to God we’re said to be praying — but when God talks to us, we’re said to be schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlinborn 1939Contributions of Jane Wagner
- Prayer
I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to Make America Great Again.
Donald Trumpborn 1946Donald Trump’s Second Inaugural Address (2025)
- America
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth,
Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume
Martin Farquhar Tupper1810–1889Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849), Of Immortality.
- Love
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu1931–2021Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)
- Family
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he’d rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
Desmond Tutu1931–2021Beyers Naudé memorial lecture (15 August 2003)
- Freedom
You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.
Desmond Tutu1931–2021Wallenberg Lecture (2008)
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Animals
- Anti-God