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God is detached and just watching it. God isn’t saying that there should be evil or that there should be good. God is pure love, existing in the detachment of infinity—watching, and being there
Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
They tell us that ‘God’ is not an idea contained in a form of words but a way of being towards others and towards Being itself. Reverent. Expectant. Wordless. Never controlling, because love and goodness cannot be compelled. We should do good for its own sake as if God did not exist.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
God, in short, is not a being but is at once “beyond being” (in the sense that he transcends the totality of existing things) and also absolute “Being itself” (in the sense that he is the source and ground of all things).
David Bentley Hart • The Experience of God
God is the observer, not the creator. And God stands ready to assist you in living your life, but not in the way you might expect.
Neale Donald Walsch • The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Conversations with God Series)
God is the hero of the story.
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
This luminous ground of God, is the ground that upholds all creation, “the Love that moves the sun and the other stars” as Dante put it,30 the depths of our own heart, awareness itself utterly steeped in and saturated by God.
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
You and I are made by God and for God. Our home is in God. We are beloved. We are dependent. We need God, every second of every day, if we are going to be happy or good, much less both. Very little is worth knowing more than this.