Symbols

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All our words about God are symbols.

Language itself is composed of symbols …

God is an experience. 

Paul Knitter

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God

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God doesn't promise to fix things;

God just promises not to go away.

Deborah Keenan

God

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God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

Mary Baker Eddy

God in All Things

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The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw – and knew I saw – all things in God and God in all things.

Mechtild of Magdeburg

God

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God is the poetry caugh in any religion.

Les Murray

God

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God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don’t know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks I think … Yeah, It. God ain’t a he or a she, but a It.

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Lasting Change

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Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

Eknath Easwaran

The Mid-Point

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In my understanding I saw God in a point. In seeing this I saw that God is in all things. God works in creatures because God is in the mid-point of everything.

Julian of Norwich

Where God Begins

When you come to an end, that's where God begins.

Reb Albert Lewis, Mitch Albom' s have a little faith: a true story