Quotes about Expansive
God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
You can call the universe many things — awesome, beautiful, violent — but one thing you can't call it is cramped.
- Stephen Hawking
we ought not to limit God where He has not limited Himself.
- Jonathan Edwards
The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills.
- Anonymous
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
No, it's not. It's bigger and more expansive and inclusive and embracing and enlightened than that because the Jesus story is bigger and more expansive and inclusive and challenging and dangerous and enlightened than that.
- Rob Bell
First, I'm a Christian, and so Jesus is how I understand God. I realize that for some people, hearing talk about Jesus shrinks and narrows the discussion about God, but my experience has been the exact opposite. My experiences of Jesus have opened my mind and my heart to a bigger, wider, more expansive and mysterious and loving God who I believe is actually up to something in the world.
- Rob Bell
Since culture is horizonal it is not restricted by time or space.
- James Carse
God is too large to be housed under one roof.
- Roger Williams
A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe.
- Carl Sagan