Quotes About God

The spiritual world needs two revolutions: One is to separate God from religion and the other is to separate religion from God! This purification process will make God less human and more universal.

The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!

The "stream" we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.

There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations.

Think, my friend, think millions of things! Thinking is the Art of God!

Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.

To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don't be afraid, you don't fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science!

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

If the soul knows God in creatures, night falls. If it sees how they have their being in God, morning breaks. But if it sees the Being that is in God himself alone, it is high noon! See! This is what one ought to desire with mad fervor—that all his life should become Being.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way.

To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

God is at home. We are in the far country.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.

Where there is Isness, there God is. Creation is the giving of isness from God. And that is why God becomes where any creature expresses God.

When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit.