Umberto Eco Quotes

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

Nothing scares me but God.

God made nightButMan made darkness.

But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love.

But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.

The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.

It says in the Bible, in plain words, that God made a self-portrait. He created man in His own image - man and woman - for God is Love.Why should we start thinking of a god up in the clouds with wings, if He dwells within us in the spirit of Love?!

Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

To love God is something greater than to know Him.

Love is the higher law.

Love is the only future God offers.

He prayeth best who loveth best.

All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.

Life began on this planet when the first amoeba split. Mankind will still be seeking God, not accepting that God is a spirit; can't see it, touch it, only feel it. It's called LOVE.