Alfred Jarry Quotes

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; ... And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.

The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some 'substance' by Spinoza. The personal aspect (Sakara) of that Being is termed 'Ishvara' or Allah, Hari, Jehova, Father in Heaven, Buddha, Siva, etc. Just as vapour or steam is formless, so also God is formless in His unmanifested or transcendental state.

God is bigger than the Christian faith.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.

I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

Prayer flies where the eagle never flew.

He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.

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

Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.