The Existence of God Quotes

“In short, what ought to help most to open their eyes serves only to close them faster;”
― François Fénelon, The Existence of God

“A man who lives without reflecting thinks only on the parts of matter that are near him, or have any relation to his wants.  He only looks upon the earth as on the floor of his chamber, and on the sun that lights him in the daytime as on the candle that lights him in the night.  His thoughts are confined within the place he inhabits.  On the contrary, a man who is used to contemplate and reflect carries his looks further, and curiously considers the almost infinite abysses that surround him on all sides.”
― François Fénelon, The Existence of God

“A man deeply concerned in an affair of great importance, that should take up all the attention of his mind, might pass several days in a room treating about his concerns without taking notice of the proportions of the chamber, the ornaments of the chimney, and the pictures about him, all which objects would continually be before his eyes, and yet none of them make any impression upon him.  In this manner it is that men spend their lives; everything offers God to their sight, and yet they see it nowhere.  “He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and nevertheless the world did not know Him”
― François Fénelon, The Existence of God