“Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.”
Volume II, chapter V, section 30.
The Stones of Venice (1853)
“150. Just as sight is the most worthy of the sense, so also is prayer the most divine of the virtues.”
Chapters on Prayer
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Evagrius Ponticus 24
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“So vast, without any question, is the divine handiwork of the most excellent Almighty.”
End of Ch. 10<!-- quoted in The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens (1986) by p. 232 -->; the "Congregation of the Index" (the official inquisition censors) declared<!-- on 15 May 1620 --> that the last sentence of this statement was one of eleven passages which should be removed from the work, in this case because it was perceived as implying that God designed things in accord with the Copernican system, rather than that of Ptolemy.
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
Context: The forward and backward arcs appear greater in Jupiter than in Saturn and smaller than in Mars, and on the other hand greater in Venus than in Mercury. This reversal in direction appears more frequently in Saturn than in Jupiter, and also more rarely in Mars and Venus than in Mercury. Moreover, when Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars rise at sunset, they are nearer to the earth than when they set in the evening or appear at a later hour. But Mars in particular, when it shines all night, seems to equal Jupiter in size, being distinguished only by its reddish color. Yet in the other configurations it is found barely among the stars of the second magnitude, being recognized by those who track it with assiduous observations. All these phenomena proceed from the same cause, which is the earth's motion.
Yet none of these phenomena appears in the fixed stars. This proves their immense height, which makes even the sphere of the annual motion, or its reflection, vanish from before our eyes. For, every visible object has some measure of distance beyond which it is no longer seen, as is demonstrated in optics. From Saturn, the highest of the planets, to the sphere of the fixed stars there is an additional gap of the largest size. This is shown by the twinkling lights of the stars. By this token in particular they are distinguished from the planets, for there had to be a very great difference between what moves and what does not move. So vast, without any question, is the divine handiwork of the most excellent Almighty.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
(1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
"The Holy Dimension", p. 341
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
C.G. Jung
(1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
The Practice of Psychotherapy, p. 364 (1953)
William James
(1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Lecture XIX, "Other Characteristics"
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Thomas Brooks
(1608–1680) English Puritan
Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860
“Most prayers have nothing in common with petitions.”
G. I. Gurdjieff
(1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Context: When we speak of prayer or of the results of prayer we always imply only one kind of prayer — petition, or we think that petition can be united with all other kinds of prayers.… Most prayers have nothing in common with petitions. I speak of ancient prayers; many of them are much older than Christianity. These prayers are, so to speak, recapitulations; by repeating them aloud or to himself a man endeavors to experience what is in them, their whole content, with his mind and his feeling.