"This was the very purpose of creation that……" — Bede Griffiths
"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 eternal 'idea' in God, should 'become' God by participation, God expressing himself through that unique being."
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20 Quotes by Bede Griffiths
Bede Griffiths has 20 quotes on this site.
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Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate…
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This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual,…
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...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that…
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The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to…
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In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point,…
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I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering…
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God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has…
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This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is…
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The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
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Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The…
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You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife,…
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I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
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Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving;…
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It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void,…
— Nick Cave
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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.
— Meister Eckhart
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A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted.…
— Pope Pius XII
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God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love…
— Anatole France
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Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Physical love must end up as a creative love. And creative love must end up as a divine love. And…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled…
— John of Kronstadt
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The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.
— Clement of Alexandria
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Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God’s adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ. …
— Pope Francis
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To become conscious of God, to become God's consciousness, to become God, to be God and to be beyond God,…
— Frederick Lenz
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