“The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept "God."”

— Anthony de Mello

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Anthony de Mello 135

Indian writer 1931–1987

Mohammad Habib (1895–1971) Indian historian

quoted in Peter Hardy in Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon. by Philips, C. H. (Cyril Henry), 1912- https://archive.org/details/historiansofindi0000phil/page/298/mode/2up and in E. Sreedharan - A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000-Orient blackswan (2019)

“God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

The Divinisation of Our Activities, p. 63
The Divine Milieu (1960)

“Belief in God is the single greatest barrier to God in the Universe. It is almost a total barrier to the experience of God. When you think you have experienced God, you haven't. Experiencing God is experiencing God, and that is true religion.”

Werner Erhard (1935) Critical Thinker and Author

[Ruth Tucker, 2004, Another Gospel: Cults, Alternative Religions, and the New Age Movement, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Zondervan, 369, 0310259371]
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“Freedom is more than just a word and a patriotic concept. It is the purest intent of God.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 73

“A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.”

Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) Korean religious leader

The Way of God's Will Chapter 2-1 God's Words http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/WofGW/wogw2-01.htm Translated 1980.

“It is the furious longing to give finality to the Universe, to make it conscious and personal, that has brought us to believe in God, to wish that God may exist, to create God, in a word.”

Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VII : Love, Suffering, Pity
Context: It is the furious longing to give finality to the Universe, to make it conscious and personal, that has brought us to believe in God, to wish that God may exist, to create God, in a word. To create Him, yes! This saying ought not to scandalize even the most devout theist. For to believe in God is, in a certain sense, to create Him, although He first creates us. It is He who is continually creating Himself.