We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. And the incognito is not always hard to penetrate. The real labour is to remember, to attend. In fact, to come awake. Still more, to remain awake.
~C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill.
every bee knows the formula of its beehive.
They know it in their own way, not in our way.
Only humankind does not know its formula.
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
45 Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace. Nothing shows him the truth, everything deceives him. The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and, just as they trick the soul, they are tricked by it in their turn; it takes its revenge. The senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions. They both compete in lies and deception. —Blaise Pascal, Penses
Give us your grace, O Lord, to overcome our complete inadequacy to grasp truth.