“Who can make an image of God?”

Last updated on: September 2, 2015 at 7:54 am by Annie Mueller

“Who can make an image of God?” 2015-08-20T07:59:44-05:00 Annie Mueller

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Hávamál: The Words of Odin the High One

Tr. Olive Bray

53.
Little the sand if little the seas,
little are minds of men,
for ne’er in the world were all equally wise,
’tis shared by the fools and the sage.

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The Holy Quran: Sura XIII

Tr. Yusuf Ali

For Him (alone) is prayer
In Truth: any others that they
Call upon besides Him hear them
No more than if they were
To stretch forth their hands
For water to reach their mouths
But it reaches them not:
For the prayer of those
Without Faith is nothing
But (futile) wandering (in the mind).

Whatever beings there are
In the heavens and the earth
Do prostrate themselves to God
(Acknowledging subjection),—with good-will
Or in spite of themselves:
So do their shadows
In the mornings and evenings.

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We Make the Road by Walking

Brian D. McLaren

… religion too often shrinks, starves, cages, and freezes aliveness rather than fostering it. … the only viable future for religion is to become a friend of aliveness again.
Our world truly needs a global spiritual movement dedicated to aliveness.

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An African Prayer Book: Today Is God

Anonymous; ed. Desmond Tutu

In the beginning was God,
Today is God,
Tomorrow will be God.
Who can make an image of God?
He has no body.
He is the word which comes out of your mouth
That word! It is no more,
It is past, and still it lives!
So is God.

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