Bede Griffiths Quotes

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• Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.
• This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of…
• ...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of…
• The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.
• This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize its…
• In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death…
• I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole…
• God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to…
• This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The…
• The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
• Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of…
• You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you…
• I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
• God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was…
• I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance…
• I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had…
• It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen…
• Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is…
• I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious,…
• There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city…

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