Divine Perception Quotes

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him.

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.

Your thoughts of God are too human

To me, it's the folly of man to make God human.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.

Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed.

Because God is better than we think we have to change the way we think.

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.

I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

God comes to see without a bell.

True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.