Michael Servetus Quotes

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

I think there's a passion for God like never before.

Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.

The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.

It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If only they [people] could all see themselves as they really are I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusions, a point of pure truth This little point is the pure glory of God in us. It is in everybody.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant.

This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation... God does not love weak souls and flabby flesh. The spirit desires to wrestle with flesh which is strong and full of resistance. It is a carnivorous bird which is incessantly hungry; it eats flesh and, by assimilating it, makes it disappear.

We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.

I'd like to thank Jesus. He's the one who changed my life.