"God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you."

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"God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you."

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."

Johannes Sebastian Bach, German Composer

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"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity."

Julie Harris, American Actress

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"Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day."

Ramakrishna, Indian Leader

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"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."

Gerrit Smith, American Politician

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"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us."

Tupac Shakur, American Musician

God, Man, Struggle

"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped."

John Piper, American Clergyman

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"I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods."

Georg Trakl, Austrian Poet

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"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."

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"We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me."

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"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."

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"All God wants of man is a peaceful heart."

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"Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door."

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"To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God."

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"The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great."

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

"God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity."

"Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day."

"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."

"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us."

"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God."

"God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped."

"I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods."

Explore more quotes by Meister Eckhart

"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."

"We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me."

"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."

"All God wants of man is a peaceful heart."

"Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door."

"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."

"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."

"When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order."

"To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God."

"The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great."