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God Quotes by Alan Watts
- To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be…
- How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous…
- If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.
- Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol...
- You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.
- You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
- Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
- How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque…
- In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe,…
- But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
- The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
- The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
- The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
- It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it…
- Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re…
- For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found…
- If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi