There is no question whether an event has happened because of your prayers. When the event you prayed for occurs your prayer has always contributed to it. When the opposite event occurs your prayer has never been ignored; it has been considered and refused, for your ultimate good and the good of the whole universe.
Jonathan Edwards – The object of our admiration and love
...The glory and beauty of the blessed Jehovah, which is most worthy in itself, to be the object of our admiration and love, is there exhibited in the most affecting manner that can be conceived of, as it appears, shining in all its luster, in the face of an incarnate, infinitely loving, meek, compassionate, dying Redeemer...
Augustine: Our hearts are restless until finding rest in God.
Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.
J.I. Packer — Communion between God and man
Communion between God and man is the end to which both creation and redemption are the means; it is the goal to which both theology and preaching must ever point; it is the essence of true religion; it is, indeed, the definition of Christianity.
Albert Einstein on God’s existence
We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues...The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend...That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God.