in Quotes & Aphorisms (Religion)
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
God's knowledge is like a river coursing towards the sea, God is the source and men are the ocean.
The saving of anyone is something which is not in the power of man, but only of God. No one can be saved — in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved — in virtue of what God can do. The divine claim takes the form that it puts both the obedient and the disobedient together and compels them to realise this, to recognise their common status in face of the commanding God.
Contradictions.
Infinite wisdom and wisdom of Religion.
The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.
I feel dullness, darkness, solitude.
I avert tortures.
Silence and intense emptiness
inside me.
I suffer for searching and not finding Christ,
to listen without hearing.
A smile is a mask or a cloak that covers everything.
The very paciic man is he who through life's adversities, maintains the peace of the soul.
There exists no certainty that God gave man dominion over other creatures. It's, otherwise, more probable that man invented God to sanctify the dominion he took over cows or horses.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?