God Quote by Walt Whitman — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.”

“Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,”

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

“A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;”

“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.”

“Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.”

“The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.”

“This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name. The consciousness that animates us is itself central to this mystery and the ground for any experience we might wish to call 'spiritual.' No myths need be embraced for us to commune with the profundity of our circumstance. No personal God need be worshiped for us to live in awe at the beauty and immensity of creation. No tribal fictions need be rehearsed for us to realize, one fine day, that we do, in fact, love our neighbors, that our happiness is inextricable from their own, and that our interdependence demands that people everywhere be given the opportunity to flourish.”

“If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.”

“Man is and remains a transcendent being, that is, he is that existent to whom the silent and”

“There is a God of open doors. He can open a door that no man has ever opened before.”