God as a womb (quotes) - Wisdom Trove

The womb of God is a viable metaphor in the Old Testament. The writer of Job (38:29) puts it in God’s mouth in the first person: “From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost of heaven?” The context is creation, so the link there from the womb of God to creation is validly Biblical, without being pantheistic. Susan Harrison

The Bible is both richly descriptive and prescriptive in our use of mother imagery for God. “Rechamim,” the root word for “mercy” or “compassion,” is a word frequently used of God. It comes from the same root as the word for “womb” or “uterus.” In short, God’s mercy is like the mercy of a mother for her child; the child she bore from her womb. There is a significant invitation in the Bible to embrace the “wombness” of God’s compassion; not just feminine imagery for God, but mother imagery in particular. Lisa Cole Smith
To imagine God or Goddess as having a womb, a womb from which we are born and to which we might return: somehow, that changed everything for me. I’d previously envisioned the Goddess as a Divine Mother, yes, but I’d always seen that Mother as a separate being, not as the very cradle of existence, the all-encompassing source. Clearly, I hadn’t been paying enough attention. And here it was not Goddess but God who was endowed with a womb. Joyce Zonana

God awaits us in the midst of the forest. Lush and verdant, tender with life’s most reverent of creations. We cannot hear the cries of the greatest Mother of all. The Divine Feminine which settles beneath our flesh and bones, the womb Goddess, the carrier of all humankind. Laura Aversano

Womb of life, and source of being,
home of every restless heart,
in your arms the worlds awakened;
you have loved us from the start.
We, your children, gather ‘round you,
at the table you prepare.
Sharing stories, tears, and laughter,
we are nurtured by your care. Ruth Duck
Divine Womb,
birthing forth the river of blessing which runs through all,
Soften the ground of our being,
and hallow in us a space for the planting of thy presence.
In our depths,
sow thy seed with its greening-power
that we might be midwives to thy Reign.
Mark Hathaway
The formation of the life of a person in the womb is the work of God, and it is not merely a mechanical process but a work on the analogy of weaving or knitting. John Piper

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence. Eckhart Tolle
The womb is like an altar, it’s the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do…create. Peter Kreeft
God thought and things came to be, in-formed: the divine thought is the complicated womb of all that is. For it’s not likely that, like some painter, He conjured up an image from a similar image, having seen beforehand things which His own one mind did not write. Gregory of Nazianzus
The womb is like an altar, it’s the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do…create. Peter Kreeft

In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy, fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth; red-hot as fire yet restlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And the Womb was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to Existence. She was the Deep. . . . Barbara G. Walker
The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening. Yevgeny Zamyatin

The very idea of God’s womb—safe, comforting, calming, restful—well, it seemed irresistible and welcoming after a long journey out of a fear based masculine image of God. And now that I’ve experienced a womb-like presence of God in my prayer life I find it to be all that I imagined. Janet Hagberg
May God’s womb welcome his soul. May God’s womb enfold him. May God’s womb cradle her. Tobie Nathan
The world can be a painful and destructive place, too. But he still lives within God’s womb. A womb that cradles him close but also pushes him out. Perhaps, like a parent, God longs to hold us safe but delights in our going forth. Knowing that we are always carried within love larger than ourselves. Laura Kelly Fanucci
In Scripture, the Hebrew word for mercy is related to the word for womb. Thus, to live within God’s compassion is to rest within God’s womb. A reassuring image of God’s mothering love. Laura Kelly Fanucci