February 22

All that has been said about God, and all that can be said about him—all of it is not satisfactory. That which a human being can understand in God and which he cannot express—that is what every human being needs and that is the only thing that gives him life.

— After Angelus Silesius

1

The reason that can be comprehended is not the Eternal Reason. The being that can be named is not the Eternal Being.

— Laozi

2

There is a Being that contains everything within itself and without which there would be neither the heavens nor the earth; this Being is tranquil and immaterial; its qualities are called reason and love, but the Being itself has no name. It is something that is both most distant from us and nearest to us.

— After Laozi

3

God is the Eternal that demands of us righteousness.

— Matthew Arnold

4

God is everything that we are conscious of being a part of.

5

Those who ask where God is are insane. God is in all of nature and in the soul of every human being. There are different faiths, but there is only one God. If a human being does not know himself, how will he know God?

— Hindu wisdom

6

I had never existed before, and it was not up to me whether I would ever come into existence, just as it is not up to me, existing right now, when my existence should cease—therefore, I began and continue to live by the power of something that had existed before me, which will continue to exist after me and which is more powerful than me. And they tell me that there is no such thing that we call God.

— La Bruyere

7

In the same way that a person who had been locked up from his birth in a room with frosted glass windows would refer to the sun as frosted glass, i.e. by the name of the only object that lets sunlight enter his room, so too does the Gospel identify the meaning of God with the name of the highest feeling or the highest human ability that acts as the sole conduit for divine revelations from above. Namely, it calls God love and logos (word, reason).

Just as being liberated from his confinement is the only way for the prisoner to differentiate between the sun itself and the frosted glass which it illuminates, so does being liberated from one’s corporeal, material existence in various degrees gives the human soul the possibility of a direct unification with the divine essence.

And until then, the people who value their reason above all will continue to identify God with reason and call him reason, and the people who who value the feeling of love above all will continue to identify God with love and call him love.

And lastly, the people who do not yet believe in their reason or in their love, and who, as a consequence of this, blindly and unquestionably believe in the authority of another person, will continue to identify God with a person.

— Fyodor Strakhov

If your eyes are blinded by the sun, you would not say that there is no sun. Neither would you say that there is no God just because your mind is confused and lost trying to understand him.

— After Angelus Silesius