“The heart benevolent and kind
The most resembles God.”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
A Winter Night (1787)
“The sage and the contemner of wealth most resemble God.”
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“Chremylus: [Wealth], the most excellent of all the gods.”
tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Pl.+230 <br class="br">Plutus, line 230 <br class="br">Plutus (388 BC)
“The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man's without a shirt.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Be Merry Friends; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Albert Barnes (1798–1870) American theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 455.
“The God of the sages does not merely ordain; God also listens.”
Harold M. Schulweis (1925–2014) American rabbi and theologian
Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey (2008)
“Curse God, and die. To George it seemed like remarkably sage and relevant advice.”
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
Source: This Is the Way the World Ends (1986), Chapter 6, “In Which a Sea Captain, a General, a Therapist, and a Man of God Enter the Tale” (p. 61)
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 327]
“Wealth should not be seized: god-given wealth is much better.”
Hesiod book Works and Days
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 320.
“Oh my God, I thought. I’m rooming with the Sydney Sage of re-education.”
Richelle Mead book Silver Shadows
Source: Silver Shadows
“The book of the Bible which most obviously resembles the Taoist classics is Ecclesiastes.”
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author
But at the same time there is much in the teaching of the Gospels on simplicity, childlikeness, and humility, which responds to the deepest aspirations of the Chuang Tzu book and the Tao Teh Ching.
"A Note To The Reader".
The Way of Chuang-Tzŭ (1965)