„Though thou loved her as thyself,As a self of purer clay,Tho’ her parting dims the day,Stealing grace from all alive,Heartily know,When half-gods go,The gods arrive.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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„Heartily know,When half-gods go,The gods arrive.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.“
— Meister Eckhart
„All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where one is wanting, all are wanting. Where there is faith, there are love, and hope, and humility; and where there is love, there is also trust; and where there is a holy trust in God, there is love to God; and where there is a gracious hope, there also is a holy fear of God.“
— Jonathan Edwards
„There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.“
— Barack Obama