Faith & Spirituality Sayings
133 sayings found from the Medieval era from 19 authors
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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
O souls, in whom no longer any spark of goodness lingers, depart from me!
The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object.
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
The punishment of the sinner is to become sin itself.
Heaven's ways include the human: among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.
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.
I am the punishment of God... If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
I am the scourge of God.
Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the earth.
Heaven has commanded me to rule all men.
The justification for my actions lies in the will of Heaven.
I am the will of the Eternal Blue Sky.
Victory is not achieved by the strength of arms, but by the will of Heaven.
I am the chosen one, sent by the Eternal Sky to bring order to the world.
My lineage is from the heavens; my destiny is to rule the earth.
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.
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 …
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.
I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.