„When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.“

„We are reading the story of our lives
As though we were in it
As though we had written it.“

—  Mark Strand Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator 1934 - 2014

„So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.“

—  Clive Barker author, film director and visual artist 1952

„And this God, the living God, your God, our God, is in me, is in you, lives in us, and we live and move and have our being in Him.“

—  Miguel de Unamuno 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864 - 1936

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VIII : From God to God
Contexto: And this God, the living God, your God, our God, is in me, is in you, lives in us, and we live and move and have our being in Him. And he is in us by virtue of the hunger, the longing, which we have for Him, He is Himself creating the longing for Himself.

„Highly ought we to rejoice that God dwelleth in our soul, and much more highly ought we to rejoice that our soul dwelleth in God. Our soul is made to be God’s dwelling-place; and the dwelling-place of the soul is God, Which is unmade. And high understanding it is, inwardly to see and know that God, which is our Maker, dwelleth in our soul; and an higher understanding it is, inwardly to see and to know that our soul, that is made, dwelleth in God’s Substance: of which Substance, God, we are that we are.
And I saw no difference between God and our Substance: but as it were all God; and yet mine understanding took that our Substance is in God: that is to say, that God is God, and our Substance is a creature in God.“

—  Julian of Norwich English theologian and anchoress 1342 - 1416

Summations, Chapter 54

„God’s purpose of creating human beings is so that we can live loving God as our bridegroom, our lover.“

—  Jung Myung Seok South Korean Leader of New Religious Movement, Poet, Author, Founder of Wolmyeongdong Center 1945

Extracted from the Official English Website on Jung Myung Seok http://jungmyungseok.net/

„We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.“

—  Natalie Clifford Barney writer and salonist 1876 - 1972

In "Gods", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)

„In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.“

—  Alberto Manguel writer 1948

Fonte: The Library at Night

„When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.“

—  Eugene H. Peterson American translator 1932 - 2018

„The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.“

—  Aiden Wilson Tozer American missionary 1897 - 1963

The Pursuit of God (1957)

„It is said that we live, move and have our being in God.“

—  Aga Khan III 48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community 1877 - 1957

Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough & Time (1954)
Contexto: It is said that we live, move and have our being in God. We find this concept expressed often in the Koran, not in those words of course, but just as beautifully and more tersely... when we realize the meaning of this saying, we are already preparing ourselves for the gift of the power of direct [spiritual] experience.

„How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then God is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don’t know.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906 - 1945

Letters and papers from Prison (1997), p. 311. May 25, 1944 letter to Eberhard Bethge,

„We read his words and our heart opens. Suddenly we realize our home is with God.“

—  Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Sri Lankan Sufi leader 1900 - 1986

Rabbi Zolman Schacter-Shalomi, Professor Emeritus, Temple University
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„If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.“

—  Thomas à Kempis, livro The Imitation of Christ

Fonte: The Imitation of Christ

„Our faith is a Virtue that cometh of our Nature-Substance into our Sense-soul by the Holy Ghost; in which all our virtues come to us: for without that, no man may receive virtue. For it is nought else but a right understanding, with true belief, and sure trust, of our Being: that we are in God, and God in us, Whom we see not.“

—  Julian of Norwich English theologian and anchoress 1342 - 1416

Summations, Chapter 54
Variante: Faith is nought else but a right understanding, with true belief and sure trust, of our Being: that we are in God, and God is in us: Whom we see not.
Contexto: Our faith is a Virtue that cometh of our Nature-Substance into our Sense-soul by the Holy Ghost; in which all our virtues come to us: for without that, no man may receive virtue. For it is nought else but a right understanding, with true belief, and sure trust, of our Being: that we are in God, and God in us, Whom we see not. And this virtue, with all other that God hath ordained to us coming therein, worketh in us great things. For Christ’s merciful working is in us, and we graciously accord to Him through the gifts and the virtues of the Holy Ghost. This working maketh that we are Christ’s children, and Christian in living.

„Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God“

—  Leo Buscaglia Motivational speaker, writer 1924 - 1998

„Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.“

—  Joyce Meyer American author and speaker 1943

„Redeemers always reach the world too late.
God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.“

—  Peter Porter British poet 1929 - 2010

"A Tale of Two Pieties", in The Chair of Babel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) p. 51.

„In all these moments, we gradually make our lives more of a prayer and we open our hands to be led by God even to places we would rather not go.“

—  Henri Nouwen Dutch priest and writer 1932 - 1996

With Open Hands (1972)

„First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.“

—  John Calvin French Protestant reformer 1509 - 1564

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