XVI, 18.
The Kitáb-I-Asmá
“If God stops a man on the road, and calls him with a revelation and sends him armed with divine authority among men, they say to him; from whom dost thou come? He answers: from God. But now God cannot help his messenger physically like a king, who gives him soldiers or policemen, or his ring or his signature, which is known to all; in short, God cannot help men by providing them with physical certainty that an Apostle is an Apostle-which would, moreover, be nonsense. Even miracles, if the Apostle has that gift, give no physical certainty; for the miracle is the object of faith.”
Source: 1840s, Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849), p. 95
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Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855Related quotes
VIII, 9
The Persian Bayán
Dalá’Il-I-Sab‘ih
“But when a man
speeds toward his own ruin,
a god gives him help.”
Source: The Persians (472 BC), line 742 (tr. Janet Lembke and C. J. Herington)
Narrated Abu Huraira
Sunni Hadith
Johannesburg, South Africa, 29 April 1972 - quoted on p213 of "Who is Guru Maharaj Ji?" published by Bantam, 1973
1970s