Quotation About God II

God is great, and therefore he will be sought: he is good, and therefore he will be found. ~ John Jay


God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. There is a divine purpose behind everything -- and therefore a divine presence in everything. ~ Neale Donald Walsch


Those without love have known nothing of God, for God is love. ~ 1 John 4:8


The whole meaning of our existence and the one consuming desire of the heart of God is that we should let ourselves be loved. ~ Ruth Burrows


All emotions, all human activities, and all spheres of life have deep roots in the mysteries of the soul, and therefore are holy. ~ Thomas Moore


To receive the love of God is to recognize it is all around us, above us, and beneath us; speaking to us through every person, every flower, every trial and situation. Stop knocking on the door: You are already inside! ~ Richard Rohr


I believe in God, who is for me spirit, love, the principle of all things. ... I believe that the reason for life is for each of us simply to grow in love. I believe that this growth in love will contribute more than any other force to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. ~ Leo Tolstoy


All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God. ~ Hannah More


Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God. ~ Mignon McLaughlin


Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are. ~ Meister Eckhart


We could not seek God unless He were seeking us. ~ Thomas Merton


To accept the responsibility of being a child of God is to accept the best that life has to offer you. ~ Stella Terril Mann


Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. ~ Eileen Caddy


The starting point in the religious experience is wonder. ~ Seymour Cohen


Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness. ~ Julian of Norwich


The highest point a man can attain is not knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! ~ Nikos Kazantzakis


Awe precedes faith; it is at the root of faith. We must grow in awe in order to reach faith. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel


God is present in the confusion and dislocation of the world. One encounters God not by turning one's back on that world but by plunging into it with the faith that the divine-human encounter occurs in teh midst of the encounter of human with human, especially in the struggle to create signs of the coming of God's reign of peace and justice. ~ Harvey Cox


God is greater than my mind and my heart, and what is really happening in the house of prayer is not measurable in terms of human success and failure. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Quotations About God I

Far beyond your intellect, far beyond your understanding, lies inexhaustible knowledge and wealth, strength and power, peace and joy. Do not use your intellect to find the answers for God and his manifestations. Everything is God. ~ Swami Vishnu-Devananda


When one finds himself, one finds God. You find God and you find yourself. ~ The Artist Formerly known as Prince


Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope. ~ George Santayana


God, so approachable by him who knows how to love, is hidden from him who knows only how to understand. ~ Alexis Carrel


God will of necessity always be a hidden God. His loudest cry is silence. If he does not manifest himself to us, we will say that he hides himself. And if he manifests himself, we will accuse him of veiling himself. Ah! It is not easy for God to make himself known to us! ~ Louis Evely


Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy and with righteous indignation, God's compassion and God's anger working through us, maybe the surest proof of all God's reality. ~ Harold S. Kushner


I myself believe that the evidence of God lies primarily in inner personal experiences. ~ William James

You should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God." ~ Kahlil Gibran


God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in distress. ~ Psalms 46:1


God is at home. It is we who have gone out for a walk. ~ Meister Eckhart


God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. ~ Joseph Roux


He is the first and the last, the manifest and the hidden: and He Knoweth all things. ~ Al'Quran


God does not ask anything else of you except that you let yourself go and let God be God in you. ~ Meister Eckhart


God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. ~ St. Augustine


God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped he would not be God. ~ Evagrius Ponticus


The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to his inpouring. ~ Meister Eckhart


Nothing is stranger, more disconcerting, more misleading than a manifestation of God. We always take God to be different from what he is. ~ Louis Evely