God Quotes - Page 17

• Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

  Rajneesh

  Way

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• I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Life, Letting Go, Truth

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Screenplays”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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• Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brother, Believe, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.44, Penguin

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• As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Long, Heaven, Earth

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1980). “Bakunin on anarchism”

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• Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or end, the all pure, omnipotent and omnipresent Atman!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Soul, Atman

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• There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Ends, Inexplicable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.63, Penguin

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• Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

  Michael Shermer

  Two, Soul, Different

  "Why people believe weird things". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2006.

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• The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, a holistic and balanced view of the world. All things are bound together. All things connect. What happens to the Earth happens to the children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the web of life; we are but one thread. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

  Rebecca Adamson

  Wisdom, Children, Web Of Life

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• I mean by the universe, the aggregate of all things that have being in themselves; and so do all men else. And because God has a being, it follows that he is either the whole universe, or part of it. Nor does his Lordship go about to disprove it, but only seems to wonder at it.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mean, Men, Doe

  Thomas Hobbes (1840). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.349

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• Not a step can we take in any direction without perceiving the most extraordinary traces of design; and the skill everywhere conspicuous is calculated in so vast a proportion of instances to promote the happiness of living creatures, and especially of ourselves, that we feel no hesitation in concluding that, if we knew the whole scheme of Providence, every part would appear to be in harmony with a plan of absolute benevolence.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Skills, Design, Steps

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 261), 1895.

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• Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Passion, Men, Reason

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 21, 1799.

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• First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.

  Agnivesh

  People, Today, Firsts

  Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

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• God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Spring, Love Is

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• Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Nature, Science, Intelligent

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, with the necessary movement of his life, results the absolute plenitude of his perfection and his happiness. A Being unique and complete, God suffices to himself.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Unique, Essence, Perfection

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• Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Great Unknown

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• The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Dream, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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• Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.

  Leonardo Boff

  Attitude, Spirituality, Stagnation

  Leonardo Boff (1995). “Ecologia, Mondialità, Mistica”

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• One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

  Aristotle

  Done, Can Do, One Thing

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.184

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• To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Mean, Unique, Inner Peace

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• God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

  George Berkeley

  Perfection, Spirit, Unlimited

  George Berkeley (1843). “Works, Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c. to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life”, p.221

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• I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

  William P. Young

  Trying, Santa, Far Away

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• Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Letting Go, Running, Over You

  Norman Vincent Peale (1975). “Positive Thinking for a Time Like this”

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• It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Men, Names

  1849 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,'Sunday'.

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• We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

  Joseph Joubert

  Believe, Thinking, Terrible

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