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God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond our comprehension.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 6: How Will it All End?
- Theology
Brahman and Śakti are identical. If you accept the one, you must accept the other.
Ramakrishna1836–1886The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 134
- Theology
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth,
Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume
Martin Farquhar Tupper1810–1889Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849), Of Immortality.
- Love
Every atheist is an idolater — unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.
Simone Weil1909–1943Last Notebook (1942) p. 308
- Atheism
- Religion
God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation, — a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth.
George MacDonald1824–1905Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879), Ch. 31: A Conscience
- Truth & Lies
One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.
Paul Dirac1902–1984The Evolution of the Physicist’s Picture of Nature (1963)
- Science
We actually have a candidate for the mind of God. The mind of God we believe is cosmic music, the music of strings resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace. That is the mind of God.
Michio Kakuborn 1947Math is the Mind of God (29 December 2012)
- Science
How shall the Shown pretend to ken aught of the Showman or the Show?
Richard Francis Burton1821–1890The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
- Knowledge
Dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.
Plato429–349 BCPhaedrus, 279c
- Beauty
- Prayer
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Matthew (1611), Matthew 5:16 (NKJV)In context
- Virtue
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Nature (1836), Nature
- Nature
Thus was I learned that Love was our Lord’s meaning.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Sixteenth Revelation, Ch. 86
- Love
To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled — that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.
Simone Weil1909–1943Last Notebook (1942) p. 137
- Atheism
- Faith
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners…
William Wilberforce1759–1833Journal entry (28 October 1787), in The Life of William Wilberforce (1838) by his sons, vol. 1
- Slavery
We stand, in a manner of speaking, midway between the unpredictability of atoms and the unpredictability of God.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Progress In Religion (2000)
- Science