Activity Quote by J. I. Packer

“Of all the attributes of the Creator that are encompassed by the Light, the essential and defining one is an infinite and unbounded desire…

— Michael Berg

“Unmaking, decreating, is the only task man may take upon himself, if he aspires, as everything suggests, to distinguish himself from the Creator.”

— Emil Cioran

“The Creator is that which activates a potentially unlimited set of modes in which finite agency is exercised, but is also simply what eternally…

— Rowan Williams

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy…

— Samuel Johnson

For a man is a little lower than the angels, yet was made that he might become the companion of the Creative Forces; and…

— Edgar Cayce

The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues…

— Joseph Addison

For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.

— John Flavel

“...a resistless, inanimate world of nature to be used and refashioned at will by man in his magnificent and courageous folly to wrest a…

— Frank Waters

“But this is my contentment, that I've lost what I never needed and what I need I can never lose: these two things, universal…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and…

— Thomas Merton

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love…

— Simone Weil

“God disposes all. From the highest to the lowest extreme of a man’s scope, wherever justice and retribution can reach him, so can grace.”

— Ellis Peters