From Albert Einstein:
To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms – this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness.
From Teihard de Chardin:
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
From Julian of Norwich:
Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man . . . is done by Christ working within him.”
From Howard Thurman:
Despite all our weaknesses of spirit and of mind [and] despite all of our blunders by which we have isolated ourselves from our fellows, it is good to remember that God has not left himself without a witness in our lives.
From Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman:
We share an uneasy fear that our life may be just years of fidgeting until we die. And so we yearn, humanity has always yearned, for divine connection, for meaning, for joy, for zoe. RefMgr field[8]: Not in File
From Erich Fromm, Man for Himself (Rinehart, 1947):
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
2003
From Harold Masback, Make a Decision" (Februray 3, 2003) at page 5:
My beloved wife, Amy, came to an intersection in an unfamiliar section of town. Was she supposed to turn left or right? She signaled left and then rolled forward several feet. No, she braked and then signaled right and started to turn. No, she braked again and just sat there, looking first one way and then the other, frozen with uncertainty in the middle of the intersection. Suddenly a booming amplified voice shook the whole car: “Make a Decision!” There, in her rear view mirror was a no-longer-so-patient member of New Canaan’s finest, holding up his squad car microphone. That’s a crisis of decision.
From Ann Weems:
It is not over, this birthing. There are always newer skies Into which God can throw stars. When we begin to think That we can predict the Advent of God, That we can box the Christ in a stable in Bethlehem That’s just the time that God will be born In a place we can’t imagine and won’t believe. Those who wait for God watch with their hearts and not their eyes, Listening, always listening for angel words. RefMgr field[22]: 2