When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery … He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift…. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.


The Eighth Day (1967)

Thornton Wilder Quotes

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery … He wants him to know all that being alive...

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery … He wants him to know all that being alive...

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery … He wants him to know all that being alive...

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery … He wants him to know all that being alive...