This is salvation…
This then is salvation – when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Humility to realize…
One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Resplendent with beauty…
If things created are so full of loveliness, how resplendent with beauty must be the One who made them!
–Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231)
Sublime magnificence of created things…
If there is anyone who is not enlightened by this sublime magnificence of created things, he is blind. If there is anyone who, seeing all these works of God, does not praise Him, he is dumb; if there is anyone who, from so many signs, cannot perceive God, that mis foolish.
–Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274)
Not for ourselves…
We are not made for ourselves alone, we are made for the good of all our fellow creatures.
–Saint Gregory Nazianzen (329-c. 391)
God is in all things…
Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God. If I spent enough time with the tiniest creature — even a caterpillar — I would never have to prepare a sermon. So full of God is every creature.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
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