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"God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything."

Bede Griffiths on God

More quotes about God

  • "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

    Abraham Lincoln on God

  • "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."

    Mother Teresa on God

  • "When the solution is simple, God is answering."

    Albert Einstein on God

  • "While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

    Maya Angelou on God

  • "Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God."

    Lawrence Welk on God

More quotes by Bede Griffiths

  • "I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me."

  • "I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage."

  • "It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding."

  • "Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men."

  • "God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything."

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