Seeds of truth and consolation
“The world will be saved by the beauty…e the beauty is Christ”
(Dostojevskij)
“I had not known the Christ, God would have been an empty word of sense... the God of the philosophers would not have had some place in my moral life. It was necessary that God bathed in the humanity, that in a precise moment of history... a man, done of meat and of blood, he pronounced certain words, he performed certain actions, because I threw me in knee....”
(François Mauriac, Life of Jesus)
“Not because it has been me said that you were Son of God I listen to your word: but your word is beautiful above every human word, and from this I recognize that are the Son of God”
(André Gide, agnostic)
“Jesus Christ has told great things so simple way that seems has not thought it, but in so precise way that is clear that he has thought her. This clarity and this simplicity together are admirable”
(Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, 291)
“Jesus Christ has manifested the mystery and the admirable laws of the kingdom of the skies to the men, the greatness of the supreme happiness that God prepares for those people who love him”
(Gottfried W. Leibniz, Discourse of metaphysics)
“The Savior was equal to the other men, since he had their same nature, but he
was separate from all for the constant power of his conscience of God, which was
him his own divine being”
(Friedrich Schleiermacher, Der christliche Glaube, Berlin 1960, II )
“Yes, if the life and the death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and the death of Jesus they are those of a God”
(Jean-Jacques Rousseau)