Burning Bush Quotes:

If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.

- Lorrie Moore

source: Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.37, Faber & Faber

topic: Burning, Speak, Burning Bush

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

source: 'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 821

topic: Faith, Autumn, Shoes, God And Nature, Wonder Of Nature

The "burning bush" was not a miracle. It was a test. God wanted to find out whether or not Moses could pay attention to something for more than a few minutes. When Moses did, God spoke. The trick is to pay attention to what is going on around you long enough to behold the miracle without falling asleep. There is another world, right here within this one, whenever we pay attention.

- Lawrence Kushner

source: Lawrence Kushner (2016). “God Was in This Place & I, i Did Not Know, 25th Anniversary Edition: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning”, p.27, Jewish Lights Publishing

topic: Fall, Long, Miracle, Another World, Falling Asleep

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

- George Eliot

topic: Burning, Brightness, Saws, Burning Bush

We stand before a burning bush whenever other human beings share with us something of their relationship with God or something of the movements of their hearts. In such moments may we always realize that we stand on holy ground

- Margaret Silf

source: Margaret Silf (2010). “2011: A Book of Grace-Filled Days”, p.228, Loyola Press

topic: Heart, Burning, Movement, Burning Bush, Holy Ground

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.

- Michael Catt

topic: Men, Burning, Forgotten, Burning Bush

The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory

- Kallistos Ware

topic: Fire, Cosmos, Burning, Burning Bush

If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.

- Woody Allen

topic: Uncles, Sea, Miracle, Burning Bush

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

topic: Life, Inspire, Burning, Burning Bush

If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'

- C. S. Lewis

source: C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Wisdom, Burning, Holy Places, Burning Bush

Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle.

- Dan Brown

topic: Children, Communication, Medicine, Immaculate Conception, Electronic Communication

A lot of us have been raised with the Bible and with movies from Hollywood to believe that God shouts down from the heavens or appears in a burning bush. It's always so dramatic and kind of scary. So that's what we all expect when we're asking God for some answers.

- Echo Bodine

topic: Believe, Scary, Heaven, Asking God, Burning Bush

It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.

- Annie Dillard

source: Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.66, Canongate Books

topic: Damage, Difficult, Recalls, Green Trees, Burning Bush

In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous, maintaining at the same time a scientific orientation.

- M. Scott Peck

source: M. Scott Peck (2001). “Wisdom from the Road Less Traveled”, p.148, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Believe, Thinking, Ordinary Days, Frame Of Reference, Burning Bush

God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early...but he's also never late, either.

- Anne Marie Miller

source: Source: www.beliefnet.com

topic: Burning, Quiet, Late, Burning Bush

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

- Li-Young Lee

topic: Writing, People, Burning, Burning Bush

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

- Mark Twain

topic: Atheist, Believe, Book, Morality And Religion, Religion And Politics

Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell.

- Walter M. Miller, Jr.

source: Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.156, Hachette UK

topic: Night, Men, Land, Four Elements, Burning Bush

To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Awe Inspiring, Event Horizon, Burning Bush

Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the sense that Bahá'u'lláh is the greatest Manifestation to yet appear, the One Who consummates the Revelation of Moses; He was the One Moses conversed with in the Burning Bush. In other words Bahá'u'lláh identifies the glory of the Godhead on that occasion with Himself. No distinction can be made amongst the Prophets in the sense that They all proceed from One Source, and are of One Essence. But Their stations and functions in this world are different.

- Shoghi Effendi

topic: Essence, Burning, World, Burning Bush

Justice requires lawyers who are prepared, witnesses who tell the truth, judges who know the law, and jurors who stay awake. Justice is the North Star, the burning bush, the holy virgin. It cannot be bought, sold, or mass produced. It is intangible, ineffable, and invisible, but if you are to spend your life in its pursuit, it is best to believe it exists, and that you can attain it.

- Paul Levine

topic: Stars, Believe, Law, Jurors, North Star

Billions of years ago God was creating universes and life; thousands of years ago he was creating angry floods, sin-saving human sacrifices and audible burning bushes. Today he occasionally appears on a piece of toast. To state that God has become reclusive over the years would be an overwhelming understatement.

- Trevor Treharne

source: Trevor Treharne (2012). “How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism”, p.246, Universal-Publishers

topic: Sacrifice, Years, Creating, Burning Bush

God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.

- Nick Cave

source: "And the Ass Saw the Angel". Book by Nick Cave, 1989.

topic: Voice, Bags, Burning, Carnies, Matured

Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.

- Mary Doria Russell

source: Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House

topic: Dog, Years, Numbers, Multiple Choice, Burning Bush

We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're ...sophisticated.'

- Paul Provenza

topic: Silly, Talking, People, Mountain Top, Lightning Bolts

At what point, 2,000 years on from the life of Jesus, do we need a refresher course? Another 2,000 years? Imagine 100,000 years’ time – would the story of Moses’ burning bush amaze a generation laden with unimaginable scientific and technological wonders? Here lies religion’s biggest quandary. While science is squeezing the life out of God, how is religion going to muster a counterattack from here?

- Trevor Treharne

topic: Jesus, Atheist, Lying, Burning Bush

Talk about burning books and burning bushes, I think that reading an effective novel can be like being immersed in fire and emerging as something a little different.

- Suhayl Saadi

topic: Book, Reading, Thinking, Burning Bush

The burning bushes, the smoking mountains, . . . the Cumorahs, and the Kirtlands were realities; but they were the exceptions. . . . Always expecting the spectacular, many will miss entirely the constant flow of revealed communication.

- Spencer W. Kimball

topic: Communication, Reality, Smoking, Burning Bush

I was taken in the Spirit to the burning bush on Mount Horeb, Moses' "first ascension," and allowed to witness the encounter he had with the Lord there. Throughout the visitation, I was enabled to know and feel the thoughts and emotions of Moses' inner being. ... There was a Holy Narrator beside me who helped me understand what I saw and heard, and he made references to relevant passages of Scripture. There were other Biblical figures also present - Joshua, Samuel, David, and even the Lord Jesus were there.

- Bob Hartley

topic: Jesus, Taken, Biblical, Thoughts And Emotions, Ascension

That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.

- Ann Voskamp

source: Source: www.churchleaders.com

topic: Echoes, Signatures, Burning, Burning Bush