#mysticism

God is as real as a station wagon. ↗

— Peggy Payne

#god #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #mysticism #religion

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#philosophy #religion #freedom

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#redemption #stumble #respect

When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough. ↗

— Jay Nichols

#awe #creativity #left-brain #mysticism #quantum-physics

Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death. ↗

— Wasif Ali Wasif

#sufi-wisdom #death

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#god #knowledge #love #medieval #mysticism

Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#mysticism #skepticism #faith

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking. ↗

— Peter Rollins

#religion #spirituality #religion

The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind. ↗

— Peter Rollins

#religion #spirituality #religion

For glory befits God because of His majesty,while lowliness befits man because it unites us with God. ↗

— St. Diadochos

#humility #mysticism #religion #religion