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GOD/GODDESS
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"God is all things; from him are all things; and all things are dependent on his will, and on his inimitable wisdom."
Hermetica
(Walter Scott, translator)
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"Life in all its forms is God."
A Million Years to the Promised Land
(Robert W. Krajenke)
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"Everything which exists has a spirit – the seed of Divinity within itself."
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
(Manly P. Hall)
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"I will sing of well-founded Gaia, Mother of All, eldest of all beings, she feeds all creatures that are in the world, all that go upon the goodly land and all that are in the paths of the sea, and all that fly." Homeric Hymn (7th century bce),
The Quotable Spirit
(Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)
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"Every living being is Brahman."
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
(A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)
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"Sophia (Holy Wisdom) lies hidden in every atom and every stone, every tree and every flower. Her magic wand of revelation lies concealed within each of us." Rudolf Steiner
The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality
(Richard Leviton)
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"God is present in all creation, everywhere….we are always in the presence of God; our task is merely to recognize that fact and to act with love and reverence toward all life, including those parts of it we would normally think of as inanimate." Tasha Halpert, 'Musings of a Homegrown Mystic'
The Quest
(various)
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"God makes all things for himself; and all things are parts of God. And inasmuch as all things are parts of him, God is all things. Therefore, in making all things, God makes himself."
Hermetica
(Walter Scott, translator)
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"God is to me that creative Force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love." Henry Sloane Coffin, 'Newton: My Idea of God'
Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations
(Frank S Mead, editor)
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"God is the Ultimate Reality and all things owe their origin and continuing existence to Him."
The Nature and Truth of the Great Religions
(August Karl Reischauer)
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"According to Hippolytus ('Elenchos', IV, 43. 4), the Egyptians said that God was an indivisible unity."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"The indwelling Spirit is He Who transforms us from one glory to another into the very image that we reflect."
Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel - on Prayer'
(Thomas Dubay, S.M.)
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"God is the Word that became World."
The History of Magic and the Occult
(Kurt Seligmann)
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"Nothing exists without the Lord…and our worlds were made by his word, his thought and his heart. Glory and honor to his name." The Odes of Solomon (2nd century Gnostic hymnbook), Ode 16
The Other Bible
(Willis Barnstone, editor)
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"Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God." Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), 'The Eolian Harp'
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition
(John Bartlett)
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"God is Being. He is all things, existing and in Himself…He is all things and in all things, the eternal soul of all created beings…He is the unification of all material, intellectual, and moral forms of all existing beings."
The Great Secret
(Maurice Maeterlinck)
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"God is All in all in a very literal sense. All being is in Him Who is all Being."
A Course in Miracles
(Helen Schucman and William Thetford)
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“O God! You are so generous in pouring out Your gifts! You are so flowing in Your love!” Mechthild of Magdeburg
Meditations from Mechthild of Magdeburg
(Henry L. Carrigan, Jr., editor)
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"Each single act, each single moment, [is] joined directly to God." Friedrich vonHugel
Letters from Saints to Sinners
(John Cumming, editor)
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"When you talk about God, you're talking about what connects everything to everything else." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
Spiritual Genius, The Mastery of Life's Meaning
(Winifred Gallagher)
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"God is in the universe and the universe is within God." St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science'
The Philokalia, volume 4
(various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios)
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"Because the reality of God is mirrored in the world, all human life, activity, events and history, as well as nonhuman life, constitute the arena wherein God's presence may be discerned. God's grace, the presence and activity of God and the transformation of life which this brings about, is loose in the world."
Introduction to Theology
(Thomas P. Rausch, editor)
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"The great central fact of the universe is that spirit of infinite life and power that is back of all, that manifests itself in and through all…God fills the universe alone, so that all is from Him and in Him, and there is nothing that is outside. He is the life of our life, our very life itself….God and the life of man are identically the same, and so are one." R. W. Trine, 'In Tune with the Infinite'
Varieties of Religious Experience, The
(William James)
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"According to the medieval view the divine likeness reaches down even into the physical structure of natural things."
Aurora Consurgens
(Marie Louise vonFranz)
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"Whether he of whom I speak be called God, or Father, or Master of all, whatever be the name which we name him to convey our meaning in our talk with one another, it is for men to hallow the name with a higher sanctity by contemplation of his supreme divinity."
Hermetica
(Walter Scott, translator)
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