Meister Eckhart Quotes

Everyone's definition of what God means can vary. But music is something that really takes you to that - 'sublime' is a great word. That thing that is greater than we are. The beauty, the magic of the universe.

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

A comprehended god is no god.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

There's got to be something greater than us.

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

God is in all - I believe in God, yes. And I believe God is in us.

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

I have the feeling that behind a certain dimension we cannot anymore see, understand, feel, smell, hear - nothing. What people are calling God I am not defining, but I am a 'possibilitiest.'

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Anything you think you know about about God, that you can't find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question.

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.

God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised up; below; but not depressed; wholly above, presiding; wholly without, embracing; wholly within, filling.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.