Created Things Quotes
47 quotes by 43 authors
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Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive…
— Annie Dillard
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The quickest way to release heaven on earth is to worship. Worship is the main activity of heaven and the destiny of all created things.
— Jeremy Riddle
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For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept…
— Saint Augustine
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If you throw the pebble in the pond and the rings start circulating that much wider, you've done things and created things for people that…
— Mindy Grossman
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How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating…
— Gerard De Nerval
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My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because…
— Georg Cantor
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When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
— Johannes Tauler
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He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on…
— Paul the Apostle
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Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the…
— Thomas Merton
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The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know…
— Ignatius Loyola
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look…
— Saint Augustine
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By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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O time! swift devourer of all created things!
— Leonardo da Vinci
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O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . .…
— Anna Komnene
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Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven and earth; because love…
— Thomas a Kempis
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