Johann Georg Hamann Quotes

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

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.

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

There is a god within us.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

The unseen world is what emanates from God.

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

I believe that there is God in all of us.

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.