Affection Quote by Anonymous

We may not understand His Will for us in time, but in eternity the veil will be drawn and we shall see that He…

— Rose Philippine Duchesne

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in…

— William Ralph Inge

...notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely…

— Jack Kerouac

He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he…

— Johannes Tauler

An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.

— Michio Kushi

“Such a view of the divine will drives human weakness to despair and one wonders if it is not, itself, often the expression of…

— Thomas Merton

“Truly they who know still know nothing if the strength of love be not theirs; for the true sage is not he who sees,…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change…

— Plato

He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

He that seeketh anything else but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.

— Thomas a Kempis