“If you are a Christian, no earthly city is yours.”

— John Chrysostom

“God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.”

— Abraham Joseph Heschel

“Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?”

— John Chrysostom

“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.'”

– Anthony the Great

“We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.”

— John Chrysostom

“It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.”

– St. Ambrose

“I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.”

– Harriet Tubman

“Love God, and do as you like, say the free spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God’s will, you do not love Him.”

— Meister Eckhart

“He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor, his life for love, knowing that contentment is the shadow not the light. The great yearning that sweeps eternity is a yearning to praise, a yearning to serve. And when the waves of that yearning swell in our souls all the barriers are pushed aside: the crust of callousness, the hysteria of vanity, the orgies of arrogance.”

– Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man Is Not Alone

“Only those who have dared to let go can dare to reenter.”

— Meister Eckhart