"God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering." ― Saint Augustine Topic(s): God More From Saint Augustine "Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point." "Love is the beauty of the soul." "Patience is the companion of wisdom." More In God "Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter."― Ansel Adams "I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."― Francis of Assisi "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."― Abraham Joshua Heschel