God is an artist…
God is an artist, and the universe is his work of art.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Creation was given…
Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people’s souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
The meaning of life is found…
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and “being present” in full awareness.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
The desire for God…
The desire for God is written in the human heart because we are created by God for God.
–Catechism of the Catholic Church #27
Created things…
Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Love is the reason for my…
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
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