“To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.”

Amour est un étrange maître!
Heureux qui peut ne le connaître
Que par récit, lui ni ses coups!
Book IV (1668), fable 1 (Le lion amoureux).
Fables (1668–1679)

Variant: I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
Source: Les Misérables

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

in [1, John, 4:12, KJV]
First Letter of John

Man Is Not Alone : A Philosophy Of Religion (1951), Ch. 24 : The Great Yearning; The Yearning for Spiritual Living<!-- p. 259 -->
Context: He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor, his life for love, knowing that contentment is the shadow not the light. The great yearning that sweeps eternity is a yearning to praise, a yearning to serve. And when the waves of that yearning swell in our souls all the barriers are pushed aside: the crust of callousness, the hysteria of vanity, the orgies of arrogance. For it is not the I that trembles alone, it is not a stir out of my soul but an eternal flutter that sweeps us all. No code, no law, even the law of God, can set a pattern for all of our living. It is not enough to have the right ideas. For the will, not reason, has the executive power in the realm of living. The will is stronger than reason and does not blindly submit to the dictates of rational principles. Reason may force the mind to accept intellectually its conclusions. Yet what is the power that will make me love to do what I ought to do?

1950s, Give Us the Ballot (1957)
Context: I conclude by saying that each of us must keep faith in the future. Let us not despair. Let us realize that as we struggle for justice and freedom, we have cosmic companionship. This is the long faith of the Hebraic-Christian tradition: that God is not some Aristotelian Unmoved Mover who merely contemplates upon himself. He is not merely a self-knowing God, but an other-loving God forever working through history for the establishment of His kingdom.

Kant, Immanuel (1996), page 100
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798)

Entry in Tolstoy&#x27;s Diary http://www.linguadex.com/tolstoy/chapter1.htm (1 November 1910) <br class="br">Context: God is the infinite ALL. Man is only a finite manifestation of Him.<br>Or better yet:<br>God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.<br>God alone exists truly. Man manifests Him in time, space and matter. The more God&#x27;s manifestation in man (life) unites with the manifestations (lives) of other beings, the more man exists. This union with the lives of other beings is accomplished through love.<br>God is not love, but the more there is of love, the more man manifests God, and the more he truly exists...<br>We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us. All conclusions and guidelines based on this consciousness should fully satisfy both our desire to know God as such as well as our desire to live a life based on this recognition.

"A Story of Doom", Book VII, p. 191.
A Story of Doom (1867)