Burning Bush Quotes

You know that Moses was spinning like crazy in Exodus XIV through XVII when the Jewish people wanted to go back and become a place again because tramping through the desert was a bit too hard.

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows.

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.

Moses, who said to the Israelites, Stop calling me Charlton! Never got a dinner!

The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory

Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the sense that Bahá'u'lláh is the greatest Manifestation to yet appear, the One Who consummates the Revelation of Moses; He was the One Moses conversed with in the Burning Bush. In other words Bahá'u'lláh identifies the glory of the Godhead on that occasion with Himself. No distinction can be made amongst the Prophets in the sense that They all proceed from One Source, and are of One Essence. But Their stations and functions in this world are different.

I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.

Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.

If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.