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God Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.
- When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for…
- Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
- In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks , and Germans…
- Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.
- All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into…
- When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days,…
- We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our…
- Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's…
- There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my…
- Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise…
- I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the…
- The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird…
- Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.
- God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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