Petrarch Quotes

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

You're an angel", Luce said, "I'm in love with an angel".

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.

When I'm asked to define God, I'm almost wordless.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.

I think Uma Thurman is one of God's creatures, one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

My feeling, of course, is that it's ludicrous to try to prove God's existence by science. God has nothing to do with science. God has all to do with soul, and who can explain that?

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.

I was rather obsessed with angels.

We don't really know a lot about the Fox God, but we believe in him.

Healing and miracles have been a mystery to men of all times. To some, the phenomenon is frightening, while others find it exhilarating.

I'm everywhere, baby, I'm everywhere. And I'm nowhere, I'm like a ghost.

Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts.