Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
-Voltaire
The devotee engages to the best of his ability into the play of life, fulfilling his role on this earth as student, employee, husband, wife, parent, neighbor, and community servant. But at the heart of the devotee is a burning desire for the Lord.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
-Voltaire
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, “Christ is risen,” but “I shall rise.”
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; his presence should be felt everywhere, but he should never be seen.
-Gustave Flaubert
To hate man and love god seems to be the sum of all creeds.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
A person once asked me in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: “Tell me, when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?” We must always consider the person.
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
-John Fowles
"The French Lieutenant's Woman"
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
-André Gide