Quotes About Perspective

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.

I'm in my 60s now, and just running almost 50 meters with explosives going on, it was kind of like, "Oh, my god! What am I doing here?"

[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

Sometimes, God may prioritize performing a miracle on our hearts and minds over a miracle concerning our circumstances.

If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute.

God is a crutch? Yeah, well, not believing in God is a coma.

Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of God's holiness and our sinfulness.

Your god is too small for my universe.

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.

Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.

There is nothing on God's green earth that someone won't complain about including both God and green earth.

If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.

There were a lot more girls at the shows early on. I'd get off stage and there would be options. Those days are long gone, thank god.

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.

One of the biggest mistakes humans make is to believe there is only one way. There are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.

What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.

If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.

The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.