He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
God is a being who is himself the cause of his own existence. His prerogative is to perceive before there was anything to be perceived. He is the creator of the universe; He operated upon nothing and turned it into something.
And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.
If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.