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Faith is to say "yes" to God. When man says "yes" to God, God says "yes" to man.

— Frithjof Schuon

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Without fear of God as a basis, nothing is possible spiritually, for the absence of fear is a lack of self-knowledge.

Sacred art helps man find his own center, that kernel whose nature is to love God.

Virtue consists in allowing free passage, in the soul, to the Beauty of God.

Will for the Good and love of the Beautiful are the necessary concomitants of knowledge of the True, and their repercussions are incalculable.

The interiorization of beauty presupposes nobility of soul and at the same time produces it.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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