Asks Quote by John Updike

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.

— W. H. Auden

Belief in God is an elementary form of selflessness - the acknowledgement of responsibility toward a hypothetical 'Other'.

— Brian Stableford

We may have created this projection of what God should be, as this judge or test, but the fact is, the only way we…

— Selma Blair

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

— Sengcan

You are given the gift of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs; yours is the creative energy that makes your…

— Seth

Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us.

— Anonymous

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows…

— Albert Einstein

“God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is the most loving thing. Anyone else who exalts himself distracts us from…

— John Piper

Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

— Anais Nin

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am…

— Meister Eckhart

The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact that we…

— Dietrich von Hildebrand