Quotes About God

Nadie es alguien, un solo hombre inmortal es todos los hombres. Como Cornelio Agrippa, soy dios, soy héroe, soy filósofo, soy demonio y soy mundo, lo cual es una fatigosa manera de decir que no soy.

There is a Talmudic legend about three men who go in search of God. One became insane, the other died, and the third met himself.

Sabemos que el pasado, el presente y el porvenir ya están, minucia por minucia, en la profética mente de Dios, en Su eternidad; lo extraño es que los hombres puedan mirar, indefinidamente, hacia atrás pero no hacia adelante.

In the earliest times, which were so susceptible to vague speculation and the inevitable ordering of the universe, there can have existed no division between the poetic and the prosaic. Everything must have been tinged with magic. Thor was not the god of thunder; he was the thunder and the god.

I Fear the mirror may disclose The true, unvarnished visage of my soul, Bruised by shadows, black and blue with guilt- The face God sees, that men perhaps see too.

Gradualmente, el enigma concreto que me atareaba me inquietó menos que el enigma genérico de una sentencia escrita por un dios. ¿Qué tipo de sentencia (me pregunté) construirá una mente absoluta? Consideré que aun en los lenguajes humanos no hay proposición que no implique el universo entero…

La creencia en ell Zahir es islámica...Zahir en árabe, quiere decir notorio, visible; en tal sentido, es uno de los noventa y nueve nombres de Dios; la plebe, en tierras musulmanas, lo dice de los seres o cosas que tienen la terrible virtud de ser inolvidables y cuya imagen acaba por enloquecer a la gente

Giuda cercò l'Inferno, perché la felicità del Signore gli bastava. Pensò che la felicità, come il bene, è un attributo divino, cui non devono usurpare gli uomini.

Desmentir que hay un Dios es afirmar la certeza del concepto divino, pues de lo contrario ignoraríamos cuál es la idea derruida por la negación precitada y por carencia de palabras nuestra negación no podría ni formularse. (Acerca de Unamuno, poeta - Inquisiciones)

History adds that before or after he died, he discovered himself standing before God, and said to Him: I, who have been so many men in vain, wish to be one, to be myself. God's voice answered him out of a whirlwind: I, too, am not I; I dreamed the world as you, Shakespeare, dreamed your own work and among the forms of my dream are you, who like me are many, yet no one.

The mystics claim that their ecstasy reveals to them a circular chamber containing a great circular book, whose spine is continuous and which follows the complete circle of the walls; but their testimony is suspect; their words, obscure. This cyclical book is God.)

That I might be allowed to dream the other Whose fertile memory will be a part Of all the days of man, I humbly pray; My god, my dreamer, keep on dreaming me

Dios mueve al jugador, y éste, la pieza. ¿Qué Dios detrás de Dios la trama empieza de polvo y tiempo y sueño y agonía?

descree de Dios, pero quiere demostrar al Dios no existente que los hombres mortales son capaces de concebir un mundo.

Si Dios no existe, todo es lícito. Si todo es lícito, sólo admitiré como norma para mí mis criterios de conveniencia. Si todo es lícito, nada es malo. Y si algo es malo, te fastidias.

Dios nos había creado, pero no podía crear el amor. Si quería que existiera el amor fuera de Él, tenía que crear seres libres. Si quería que existieran seres libres, tenía que dotarles de inteligencia y voluntad. El amor debía ser nuestra respuesta. Dios no quería esclavos.

Llega un momento en que Dios decide no enviar más gracias de arrepentimiento. Pues cada gracia de arrepentimiento sólo puede ser superada, sólo puede ser vencida, afirmándose más en el odio. Llega un momento en que Dios ve que enviar más gracias sólo sirve para que el demonio afiance más lo que ha escogido su voluntad.

The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God Himself, and which is the aim and purpose of all that happens in the world.

No, the contrary of acedia is not the spirit of work in the sense of the work of every day, of earning one's living; it is man's happy and cheerful affirmation of his own being, his acquiescence in the world and in God—which is to say love. Love that certainly brings a particular freshness and readiness to work along with it, but that no one with the least experience could conceivably confuse with the tense activity of the fanatical "worker".

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a He. You cannot say God is a She. You cannot say God is an It. (18)

The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience.

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know...And if he can match her import, the two, the knower and the known, will be released from every limitation... The hero who can take her as she is, without undue commotion but with the kindness and assurance she requires, is potentially the king, the incarnate god, of her created world.