Faith & Spirituality Sayings

133 sayings found from the Medieval era from 19 authors

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

— Dante Alighieri 1320
Biblical

O souls, in whom no longer any spark of goodness lingers, depart from me!

— Dante Alighieri 1320
Biblical

The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object.

— Dante Alighieri 1320
Biblical

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

— Dante Alighieri 1320
Biblical

The punishment of the sinner is to become sin itself.

— Dante Alighieri 1320
Biblical

Heaven's ways include the human: among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.

— Du Fu c. 712-770 CE
Biblical

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you.

— Genghis Khan 1227
Biblical

I am the punishment of God... If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

— Genghis Khan 1220
Biblical

I am the scourge of God.

— Genghis Khan 1220
Biblical

Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the earth.

— Genghis Khan c. 1222
Biblical

Heaven has commanded me to rule all men.

— Genghis Khan c. 1222
Biblical

The justification for my actions lies in the will of Heaven.

— Genghis Khan Unknown
Biblical

I am the will of the Eternal Blue Sky.

— Genghis Khan Unknown
Biblical

Victory is not achieved by the strength of arms, but by the will of Heaven.

— Genghis Khan Unknown
Biblical

I am the chosen one, sent by the Eternal Sky to bring order to the world.

— Genghis Khan Unknown
Biblical

My lineage is from the heavens; my destiny is to rule the earth.

— Genghis Khan Unknown
Biblical

He wolde make a good confessorie, / If a man had a soule, and that he were / A good man, and coude wel here / Confessiouns, and have a good memorie.

— Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1387-1400
Biblical

For, God it woot, men may wel often fynde A lordes sone do shame and vileynye; And he that wole han pris of his gentrye, For he was boren of a gentil hous, And hadde hise eldres noble and vertuous, And nel hymselven do no gentil dedis, Ne folwen his …

— Geoffrey Chaucer Approx. 1387
Biblical

Don't surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you as few human or even divine ingredients can.

— Hafez Approx. 1370
Biblical

I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

— Hafez Approx. 1370
Biblical
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