Cal Smith

“Cosmic time as we know it, through all the immensity of its geological ages and historical epochs, is only a shadow of true time, and this world only a shadow of the fuller, richer, more substantial, more glorious creation that God intends; and [we are required] to believe also that all of nature is a shattered mirror of divine beauty, still full of light, but riven by darkness.”
― David Bentley Hart , The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?

“Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden through what is constantly perceived”
― St Gregory of Nyssa

“..Thou enter into my heart and fill it so compellingly that I shall turn no more to my sins but embrace thee, my only good?”
― St. Augustine, The Confessions

“God is more intimate to me than I am to myself”
― St. Augustine