„Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?“
— Ursula K. Le Guin, buch Lavinia
Quelle: Lavinia (2008), p. 66
„If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.“
— Thomas von Kempen, buch Nachfolge Christi
Quelle: The Imitation of Christ
Letzte Aktualisierung 22. Mai 2020. Geschichte
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Augustinermönch und Mystiker 1380 - 1471Ähnliche Zitate
„And if the immortality of the soul had been unable to find vindication in rational empiricism, neither is it satisfied with pantheism. To say that everything is God, and that when we die, we return to God, or more accurately, continue in Him, avails our longing nothing; for if this indeed be so, then we were in God before we were born, and if we die we return to where we were before being born, then the human soul, the individual consciousness, is perishable. And since we know very well that God, the personal and conscious God of Christian monotheism, is simply the provider, and above all the guarantor, of our immortality, pantheism is said, and rightly said to be merely atheism disguised; and in my opinion, undisguised.“
— Miguel de Unamuno 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864 - 1936
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution
„To be simple is to accept the essence of the message and not try to twist it or adapt it to our own ideas. To be simple we must desire to remain in the image of God. We must not be so complex that we make God into our image! Simplicity is dying to self, an emptying.“
— Catherine Doherty Religious order founder; Servant of God 1896 - 1985
"For This I Have Laid Down My Life", p. 12
Unfinished Pilgrimage (1995)
„God's forgiveness is unconditional. There is no condition whatsoever in man which would make him worthy of forgiveness. If forgiveness were conditional, conditioned by man, no one could be accepted and no one could accept himself. We know that this is our situation, but we loathe to face it.“
— Paul Tillich German-American theologian and philosopher 1886 - 1965
Chap. 1: "To Whom Much is Forgiven..."
The New Being (1955)
„Only a merciful Church shines! Were we to forget, even only for a moment, that mercy is ‘what pleases God most,’ all our efforts would be in vain, for we would become slaves of our institutions and our structures, however renewed they might be. We would always be slaves.“
— Papa Francesco 266th Pope of the Catholic Church 1936
2010s, Address to the United States Congress, Mercy Is 'What Pleases God Most
„The saints that be in Heaven, they will to know nothing but that which our Lord willeth to shew them: and also their charity and their desire is ruled after the will of our Lord: and thus ought we to will, like to them. Then shall we nothing will nor desire but the will of our Lord, as they do: for we are all one in God’s seeing.“
— Julian of Norwich English theologian and anchoress 1342 - 1416
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 30
„Outside of God's perspective, even romance loses its significance. Not in riches or in romance do we find fulfillment, but in God.“
— Donald Miller American writer 1971
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
„We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life.“
— John C. Maxwell American author, speaker and pastor 1947
„If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we f1nd new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.“
— James Freeman Clarke American theologian and writer 1810 - 1888
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 536.
„Don't try to get even, don't waste a lot of time trying to get even with each other. Because you never really do. Our ancestors thought if they ate of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, that they would be like God. The truth was, not only did they not find out good from evil, but they also were unable to know God after that. Not only were they unable to know God, they were unable to know each other. Not only were they unable to know each other, they were unable to know themselves. And that is our, that is our heritage, folks.“
— Rich Mullins American christian musician 1955 - 1997
Upland, Indiana http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/upland-indiana-sep2196.html (September 21, 1996)
In Concert
„The Holy Spirit of God dwelling in us, knowing our wants better than we, Himself pleads in our prayers, raising us to higher and holier desires than we can express in words, which can only find utterance in sighings and aspirations.“
— Henry Alford English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer 1810 - 1871
The New Testament for English Readers (1865), Romans 8:26, p. 73, footnote.
„In this supremacy of tragedy, we find it only in our hearts, to wish that God's curse may overwhelm the treacherous…“
— Robert Erskine Childers Irish nationalist and author 1870 - 1922
Speaking in elegy regarding the recent death of Michael Collins. From " Poblacht na-Eireann (War News ) No. 47 " Thursday 24 August 1922.
Literary Years and War (1900-1918), Last Years: Ireland (1919-1922)
„We do not want to harm any human being, not even our worst enemy. Our walk of life is to live in truth and righteousness of God, in peace and unity. … If all the world were like us there would be no war and no injustice.“
— Jacob Hutter Tyrolean Anabaptist leader and founder of the Hutterites 1500 - 1536
Letter to Governer Kuna von Kunstadt, as reported in William Roscoe Estep, The Anabaptist Story (1996), p. 133
„Thus I saw full surely that it is readier to us to come to the knowing of God than to know our own Soul. For our Soul is so deep-grounded in God, and so endlessly treasured, that we may not come to the knowing thereof till we have first knowing of God, which is the Maker, to whom it is oned. But, notwithstanding, I saw that we have, for fulness, to desire wisely and truly to know our own Soul: whereby we are learned to seek it where it is, and that is, in God. And thus by gracious leading of the Holy Ghost, we should know them both in one: whether we be stirred to know God or our Soul, both are good and true.“
— Julian of Norwich English theologian and anchoress 1342 - 1416
Summations, Chapter 56
„Would that we two were lying
Beneath the churchyard sod,
With our limbs at rest in the green earth's breast,
And our souls at home with God.“
— Charles Kingsley English clergyman, historian and novelist 1819 - 1875
The Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act ii, scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed
„Do the gods light this fire in our hearts
or does each man's mad desire become his god?“
— Virgil, Aeneid
Original: (la) Dine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt,
Euryale, an sua cuique deus fit dira cupido?
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Lines 184–185 (tr. Fagles)
„We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.“
— Madeline Miller, buch The Song of Achilles
Quelle: The Song of Achilles
„If we were truly created by God, then why do we still occasionally bite the insides of our own mouths?“
— Dara Ó Briain Irish comedian and television presenter 1972