Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book One: The Revelation of the Deity
Contexto: He was not quite nine years old, in fact, when he began to have spiritual experiences... he felt he saw God's image open before him. He felt the deity reveal itself in Nature in an inexpressible music, the sonic revelation of the deity; and before he knew it, he himself had become a trembling voice in a celestial chorus of glory. His soul seemed to be rising out of his body like frothing milk brimming over the edge of a basin; it was as if his soul were flowing into an unfathomable ocean of higher life, beyond words, beyond all perception, his body suffused by some surging light that was beyond all light. Sighing, he became aware of his own insignificance in the midst of this infinite chorus glory and radiance; his whole consciousness dissolved into one sacred, tearful yearning to be allowed to be one with the Highest and be no longer any part of himself. He lay for a long time on the sand or on the grass, and wept tears of deep and fervent happiness, face to face with the inexpressible. "God, God, God!" he cried, trembling with love and reverence, and kissed the ground and dug his fingers into the turf.
— Homér, The Odyssey (Cowper)
XVI. 190–191 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Original: (el) Υἱὸν κύσε, κὰδ δὲ παρειῶν
δάκρυον ἧκε χαμᾶζε· πάρος δ' ἔχε νωλεμὲς αἰεί.
— Isaac Newton British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics 1643 - 1727
Of Humanity -->
A short Schem of the true Religion
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838
The Soldier's Funeral from The London Literary Gazette (16th November 1822)
The Improvisatrice (1824)
— Robert Browning English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812 - 1889
Stanza xvii.
One Word More (1855)
— John the Evangelist author of the Gospel of John; traditionally identified with John the Apostle of Jesus, John of Patmos (author of Revela… 10 - 98
in [1, John, 4:12, KJV]
First Letter of John
— Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd British writer and minister 1825 - 1899
Fonte: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 233.
— Jacques Ellul, livro The Meaning of the City
Fonte: The Meaning of the City (1951), p. 5
— James Alison Christian theologian, priest 1959
Fonte: Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001), "Jesus' fraternal relocation of God", p. 76.
— Ayn Rand Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905 - 1982
We The Living (1936)
Fonte: We The Living Last Page
— Charles Seymour Robinson American pastor, editor and compiler of hymns 1829 - 1899
Fonte: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 584.
— Alexander Maclaren British minister 1826 - 1910
Fonte: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 58.
— Irving Stone, livro The Agony and the Ecstasy
Fonte: The Agony and the Ecstasy
— Richard Alleine English clergyman 1611 - 1681
Fonte: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 277.
— Sinclair Lewis American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright 1885 - 1951
The God-Seeker (1949)
— Wilhelm von Pressel German official and railway engineer 1821 - 1902
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 102.
— Miguel de Unamuno 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864 - 1936
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution
Contexto: To believe in God is to long for His existence and, further, it is to act as if he existed; it is to live by this longing and to make it the inner spring of our action.
Contexto: To believe in God is to long for His existence and, further, it is to act as if he existed; it is to live by this longing and to make it the inner spring of our action. This longing or hunger for divinity begets hope, hope begets faith, and faith and hope beget charity. Of this divine longing is born our sense of beauty, of finality, of goodness.
— Bernard Groethuysen French literary historian, translator and writer 1880 - 1946
Fonte: The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 89
— David Berg Children of God founder 1919 - 1994
All Things Change, but Jesus Never
— Mansur Al-Hallaj Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and teacher of Sufism 858 - 922
As quoted in Words of Ecstasy in Sufism (1985) by Carl W. Ernst, p. 45
Variant translation: Allah, Most High, is the very One Who Himself affirms His Unity by the tongue of whomsoever of His creatures He wishes. If He affirms His Unity in my tongue it is He Who does so, and it is His affair. Otherwise, my brother, I myself have nothing to do with affirming Allah's Unity.
As quoted in "Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj" at Sidi Muhammad Press http://www.sufimaster.org/teachings/husayn.htm
Contexto: God, Most High, is the very one who Himself affirms His unity by the tongue of whatever of His creatures He wishes. If He Himself affirms His unity by my tongue, it is He and His affair. Otherwise, brother, I have nothing to do with affirming God's Unity.
— Meister Eckhart German theologian 1260 - 1328
Sermon VII : Outward and Inward Morality
