“What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?”
James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet
Source: Hadrian the Seventh (1904), Ch. 24, p. 360
“What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?”
James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet
“The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.”
François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 276.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 593.
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 42
Context: To see that He doeth it, and to pray forthwithal, — so is He worshiped and we sped. All-thing that our Lord hath ordained to do, it is His will that we pray therefor, either in special or in general. And the joy and the bliss that it is to Him, and the thanks and the worship that we shall have therefor, it passeth the understanding of creatures, as to my sight. For prayer is a right understanding of that fulness of joy that is to come, with well-longing and sure trust.
Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician
Escudero, F. [Francis]. (2016, February 8). Retrieved from Official Facebook Page of Francis Escudero https://www.facebook.com/senchizescudero/posts/10153860392210610/ <br class="br">2016, Facebook
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet
Journal Intime (1882), Quotes used in the Introduction by Ward
Context: There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling except in the infinite; for the soul except in the divine. Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me. There is nothing non-exclusive but the All; my end is communion with Being through the whole of Being.
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Journals and Papers X4A 435
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860