I never think upon eternity without receiving great comfort. For I say to myself, “How could my soul grasp the idea of everylastingness, if the two were not related in some way?” Saint Francis de Sales (1567 – 1622)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote – “Nature is always a unity…”
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap. For example, she could not produce a horse if it were not preceded by all the other animals on which she ascends to the horse’s structure as if on the rungs of a ladder. Thus every one thing exists for the sake of all […]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote – “Oh how the spell before my sight…”
Oh how the spell before my sight brings nature’s hidden ways to light. See! All things with each other blending, each to each its being lending, all on each in turn depending, heavenly ministers descending, and again to heaven ascending, floating, mingling, interweaving… Can the heart of man embrace Illimitable Nature? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
Soren Kierkegaard Quote – “Eternity alone understands about compassion…”
Eternity alone understands about compassion. If you therefore wish to learn to understand compassion, you must learn it from eternity. But if you wish to understand the eternal, then there must be quiet about you, while you absolutely center your attention on inwardness. Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
Soren Kierkegaard Quote – “Love is open and accessible to all…”
Love is not an art like poetry, possible only to the few endowed for it, it is open and accessible to all. Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
Soren Kierkegaard Quote – “The life of love is hidden…”
So the life of love is hidden, but its secret life is itself in motion and has eternity in it. As the quiet lake, however placidly it lies, is really running water — for is there not a wellspring at bottom? — so love, however quiet it is in its concealment, is ever flowing. But the quiet lake can become […]
Isaac of Nineveh Quote – “A strength unknown to you will come…”
When God sees that in all purity of heart you are trusting in him more than in yourself… then a strength unknown to you will come to make its dwelling in you. And you will feel in all your senses the power of him who is with you. Isaac of Nineveh (circa 613 – 700)
Isaac of Nineveh Quote – “More than all things, love silence…”
More than all things, love silence. It brings you a fruit that tongue cannot describe. In the beginning we have to force ourselves to be silent. But then there is born something that draws us to silence. May God give you an experience of this “something” that is born of silence. If you only practice this, untold light will dawn […]
Maximus the Confessor Quote – “Only love overcomes…”
Only love overcomes the fragmentation of human nature. Maximus the Confessor (circa 580 – 662)
Carl Jung Quote – “Readiness to receive…”
Christ would never have made the impression He did on His followers if He had not expressed something that was alive and active in their unconscious. Christianity would never have spread through the pagan world with such astonishing rapidity had its ideas not found an analogous psychic readiness to receive them. It is this fact which also makes it possible […]
