The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. – Martin Luther
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. – William Butler Yeats
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything. – Ramakrishna