“In waste God hides the gold, accept what He may send,
The great within the small, though we don't comprehend.”
The Cherubinic Wanderer
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German writer 1624–1677Related quotes
“The vessel is as gold even though we may not always like the chasing.”
Andrew Bonar (1810–1892) British minister
Preface to Letters of Samuel Rutherford, Religious tRact Society, London 1891.
Maimónides book The Guide for the Perplexed
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.9
Context: The corporeal element in man is a large screen and partition that prevents him from perfectly perceiving abstract ideals; this would be the case even if the corporeal element were as pure and superior as the substance of the spheres; how much more must this be the case with our dark and opaque body. However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between God and us.
John of the Cross (1542–1591) Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint
Note to Stanza 29 part 4
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom, Notes to the Stanzas
“God hides the fires of hell within paradise.”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.”
Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“If we may compare small things with great.”
Si parva licet componere magnis.
Book IV, line 176 (tr. Fairclough). Cf. Eclogues 1.23.
Georgics (29 BC)
