Quotes About Existence

If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by evolution. Why deliberately set it up in the one way which makes it look as though you don't exist?

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I. All that is created has its Self this Oneness.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.

There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

I believe that God is with you, that there is a presence. I believe this God is for you. I don't think the universe is a cold, dead place that is indifferent.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

Unhappiness was my god.

This god, this one word: I.

Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.

What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.

God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.

The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.

There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.

We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.