“Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?”
Ursula K. Le Guin book Lavinia
Source: Lavinia (2008), p. 66
“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts
or does each man's mad desire become his god?”
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Lines 184–185 (tr. Fagles)
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or does each man's mad desire become his god?" by Virgil?
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Ancient Roman poet -70–-19 BCRelated quotes
Allen Mandelbaum (1926–2011) American poet and professor of literature, translator from Latin and Italian
Book IX, lines 243–246
The Aeneid of Virgil (1971)
Origen (185–254) Christian scholar in Alexandria
On First Principles, Bk. 2, ch. 11; vol. 1, p. 148
On First Principles
Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
In the letter I wrote to you, you will remember I said that our species will end but the light of God will not end and at that point it will invade all souls and it will all be in everyone.
2010s, 2013, Interview in La Repubblica
Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
2010s, 2013, Interview in La Repubblica
Context: God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us. In the letter I wrote to you, you will remember I said that our species will end but the light of God will not end and at that point it will invade all souls and it will all be in everyone.
“Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Attributed in emails in 1999, as debunked at "Malice of Absence" at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp#MX2FyfdMLHissI4T.99 <br class="br">This statement has been attributed to others before Einstein; its first attribution to Einstein appears to have been in an email story that began circulating in 2004. See the Urban Legends Reference Pages http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp for more discussion. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: Evil is the absence of God.
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) Flemish mystic
Quoted in The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage (1916) by C. A. Wynschenk Dom, p. 6
Context: God being a common good, and His boundless love being common to all, He gives His grace... to all men, Pagan and Jew, good or evil... Thus God is a common light and a common splendour, enlightening heaven and earth, and every man, each according to his need and worth.