I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
—Henry David Thoreau
The veil between us and the divine is more permeable than we imagine.
—Sue Patton Thoele
I recently invented a new theory: ambitheism. This is the doctrine that God both does and doesn't exist. I have noticed that when I try to believe in God, I am filled with sudden moments of despair that God is absent, but when I try to be an atheist, I slowly come to believe in a divine will. Thus, I have concluded that both ideas are true. God simultaneously is and isn't.
—Michael Gorelick
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
—Henry David Thoreau
People see God every day; they just don't recognize him.
—Pearl Bailey
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
—Horace Mann