„If I can find out God, then I shall find Him,
If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly,
Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me,
A lamp in darkness.“

„How do you know when you're God?" "When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself.“

—  Peter Barnes British writer 1931 - 2004

Fonte: The Ruling Class: A Baroque Comedy

„Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.“

—  Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969

„Therefore the earth is dark to me, the sunlight blackness,
Therefore I go in tears and alone, by night and day;
Therefore I find no love in heaven, no light, no beauty,
A heaven taken by storm, where none are left but the slain!“

—  Wilfrid Scawen Blunt English poet and writer 1840 - 1922

The Desolate City, from Collected Poems (1914)

„We may search long to find where God is, but we shall find Him in those who keep the words of Christ. For the Lord Christ saith, " If any man love me, he will keep my words; and we will make our abode with him."“

—  Martin Luther seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483 - 1546

Fonte: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 278

„I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss where I can not find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!“

—  Emily Brontë, livro O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes

Heathcliff (Ch. XVI).
Fonte: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Contexto: Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you — haunt me then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe; I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss where I can not find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

„I believe that nobody can find God alone, I have to work with people. I have to take them with me. Alone I can't come to Him.“

—  Nelson Mandela President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist 1918 - 2013

2000s, The Sacred Warrior (2000)
Contexto: His philosophy of Satyagraha is both a personal and a social struggle to realize the Truth, which he identifies as God, the Absolute Morality. He seeks this Truth, not in isolation, self-centeredly, but with the people. He said, "I want to find God, and because I want to find God, I have to find God along with other people. I don't believe I can find God alone. If I did, I would be running to the Himalayas to find God in some cave there. But since I believe that nobody can find God alone, I have to work with people. I have to take them with me. Alone I can't come to Him."

„God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.“

—  Hannah Hurnard British writer 1905 - 1990

„Now the creed to which I subscribe is like a battle cry, engraved on my heart - the Credo of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Before, in those former times, I could say, "I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be" (Job 7:21). Now I can say, "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the last day I shall rise out of the earth. And I shall be clothed with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see God. Whom I myself shall see and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom" (Job 19:25-27).“

—  Dorothy Day Social activist 1897 - 1980

From Union Square to Rome (1938), p. 145

„I will find you," Ragnor told him. "I will find whatever chest of absurd clothes you have. And I will bring a llama into the place where you sleep and make sure that it urinates on everything you possess.“

—  Cassandra Clare American author 1973

Fonte: What Really Happened in Peru

„And because I love this life
I know I shall love death as well.
The child cries out when
From the right breast the mother
Takes it away, in the very next moment
To Find in the left one
Its consolation.“

—  Rabindranath Tagore Bengali polymath 1861 - 1941

„We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.“

—  Meister Eckhart German theologian 1260 - 1328

Quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary, p. 232

„Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean“

—  Ted Dekker American writer 1962

„The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!“

—  H.P. Lovecraft, livro Dagon

Fiction
Fonte: "Dagon" - Written Jul 1917; First published in The Vagrant, No. 11 (November 1919)

„I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.“

—  Jane Austen, livro Persuasão (livro)

Fonte: Persuasion

„And if God does not help me to go on, then I shall have to help God. — The surface of the earth is gradually turning into one great prison camp, and soon there will be nobody left outside. … I don't fool myself about the real state of affairs, and I've even dropped the pretense that I'm out to help others. I shall merely try to help God as best I can, and if I succeed in doing that, then I shall be of use to others as well. But I mustn't have heroic illusions about that either.“

—  Etty Hillesum Jewish diarist 1914 - 1943

11 July 1942, p. 484-85

„I love them
for finding what
I can't find, and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it“

—  Denise Levertov Poet 1923 - 1997

O Taste and See : New Poems (1964), The Secret
Contexto: I love them
for finding what
I can't find, and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may
discover it again, in other
lines in other
happenings. And for
wanting to know it,
for assuming there is
such a secret, yes,
for that
most of all.

„I know God only as he became human, so shall I have him in no other way.“

—  Martin Luther seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483 - 1546

Das Marburger religionsgesprach 1529: Versuch einer Rekonstruction (Leipzig, 1929), p. 27; also LW 38, 3-90

„You see, if I could believe that I shall see and touch him again, I shall not have lost him. And if I have not lost him, I shall never have had a son. Because I am I through bereavement and because of it. I do not know what I was nor what I shall be. But because of death, I know that I am. And that is all the immortality of which intellect is capable and flesh should desire. Anything else is for peasants, clods, who could never have loved a son well enough to have lost him.“

—  William Faulkner American writer 1897 - 1962

The Judge to Robert G. Ingersoll
"Beyond" (1933)

„If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you in your sleep.“

—  Frank Zappa American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer 1940 - 1993

To tourists at the Whisky-a-Go-Go, Los Angeles CA, December 1965
Liner notes for the album Freak Out! (27 June 1966).