+ As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Annie Dillard, Beauty, Love, Religion, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Annie Dillard, Brain, Break, Heart, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain. Feraz Zeid, August 24, 2023December 24, 2023, Annie Dillard, Mystery, Pain, Waste, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ God gave me a talent to draw. I ‘owed’ it to him to develop the talent. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Annie Dillard, Draws, Talent, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Annie Dillard, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Annie Dillard, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. Feraz Zeid, January 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Annie Dillard, Book, Breathe, Reading, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
+ I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Annie Dillard, Hands, 0 - Annie Dillard Author · USA
But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown! - William Cowper Poet · England
Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
If there wasn’t a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
God speaks to every individual through what happens to them moment by moment. - Jean-Pierre de Caussade Priest · France
God’s designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise. - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Mystic and writer · France