Christopher Dawson 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.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

So far as religion is concerned, it's a damned fake. Religion is all bunk.

Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage

God is absolutely holy and wise. His nature, attributes, and power are all holy. He is omnipresent, incorporeal, unborn, immense, omniscient, omnipotent, merciful and just. He is the maker, protector, and destroyer of worlds.

I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

In religion, symbols have always played a iconographic and ritualistic role. Different symbols might represent different theological ideas.

A religion must be instrumental in spiritualising the individual into a boundless and holistic nature.

One man's holy is another woman's sublime.

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

Everywhere I look, I see something holy.

The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.

They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.

And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us.

God means movement, and not explanation.