“Man is by nature unable to want God to be God. Indeed, he himself wants to be God, and does not want God to be God.”
Thesis 17
Disputation against Scholastic Theology (1517)
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Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
“God became man in order to make me God; therefore I want to be changed completely into pure God”
Ibid., P.109.
Head Like a Hole, from Pretty Hate Machine (1990).
Song lyrics
“It is hidden for everything that is not God, except for those with whom he wants to share Himself.”
The Exemplar, The Life of the Servant
F 49
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
Variant: I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.”
Describing the sound inside a spacecraft propelled by nuclear explosions, in Footfall (1986)
“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”
As translated in The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose (1991) edited by Stephen Mitchell, p. 115
Variant: God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart.