Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.Helen Keller
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.Edmund Burke
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.Montesquieu
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.Francis Bacon
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.Francis Bacon
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.Fyodor Dostoevsky