Augustus Hare Quotes

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

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.

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.

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

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.

Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves an essential spiritual and ethical question: Are we the kind of people who take everything for ourselves and leave nothing for others, or do the angels of our better nature still live? I believe the angels are still alive.

Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!

Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.

Human beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of consciousness.

Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are spirit.

The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect.

Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.

Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.

When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

God is the absolute truth...

There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things.

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.