“Every creature is a word of God.”

— Meister Eckhart

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German theologian 1260–1328

Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) Jesuit theologian and cardinal

Part 1. "The Eternal Feminine", Ch. 4, p. 73
The Eternal Feminine (1968)

“every individual is made in the image of God, insofar as he or she is a rational and free creature capable of knowing God and loving him.”

Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint

Apostolic Letter Mulieris Dignitatem, 15 August 1988
Source: www.vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_15081988_mulieris-dignitatem_en.html

“Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.”

Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer

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Source: One Minute Wisdom (1989)

“It is not enough to proclaim the word of God without putting it into practice in every Christian’s daily life. The word of God has to be lived in every person’s daily activities and in communion with other people.”

Louis Portella Mbuyu (1942) Congolese catholic bishop

homily at the celebration of the Mass to mark the Golden Jubilee anniversary of Dei Verbum https://cnsng.org/makepdf.php?tab=1365 (November 23, 2015)

“Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“In Eternity all creatures are God in God”

John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) Flemish mystic

Quoted in Divinity in Things : Religion Without Myth by Eric Ackroyd, p. 169

“All life, every living thing is a word for God in His mystery.”

Michael Elmore-Meegan (1959) British humanitarian

All Will be Well (2004)

“The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.”

Louis Zamperini (1917–2014) Italian-American middle distance runner

Source: Devil at My Heels

“God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.”

Ted Dekker (1962) American writer

“God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.”

Aeschylus Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 1032–1033

“Every creature is a word of God.”

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