Meister Eckhart Quotes

Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.

Time was God's first creation.

I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

Pregnancy is the only time in a woman's life she can help God work a miracle.

Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.

Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

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

The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something - or Someone - beyond itself.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.

There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.