“Chance made us sisters. Hearts made us friends.”

“… [I]t is our being bad brothers and sisters that leads us to be bad fathers and mothers, not our having bad fathers and mothers that has made us bad brothers and sisters.”

James Alison (1959) Christian theologian, priest

“Matter asks no questions, expects no answers of us. It ignores us. It made us the way it makes all bodies—by chance and according to its laws.”

Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) French philosopher

“We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.”

Max DePree (1924–2017) American businessman and writer

“We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.”

Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist

“Allah made us all a different shade and colour. Nations and tribes recognize one another! ’Cause every single person is your sister and brother.”

Dawud Wharnsby (1972) Canadian musician

“Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee.”

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

“Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.”

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

“Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart”

Stephen R. Lawhead (1950) American writer

“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”
Fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te.

Aurelius Augustinus book Confessions