Seneca the Younger Quotes About God
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!
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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
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We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.
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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
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God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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