Air Quote by Matthew Arnold

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

— Anonymous

God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run…

— William Gurnall

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from…

— Maimonides

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

— John Dryden

“The fate which oppresses us is the inertia of our spirit. Through extending and cultivating our activity we shall transform ourselves into fate. Everything…

— Novalis

“We become either agents of God's healing and liberating grace or carriers of the sickness of the world.”

— M. Robert Mulholland Jr

“Every war, every plague is God’s judgment. But every man who rises up to stop the wars and the plagues is God’s instrument. Human…

— John Kramer

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

— Billy Sunday

We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

— Tertullian

We must empty purgatory with our prayers.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.

— Hermann Hesse