Best 15127 quotes in «god quotes» category

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.

True art means if it helps you to become silent, still, joyous; if it gives you a celebration, if it makes you dance—whether anybody participates with you or not is irrelevant. If it becomes a bridge between you and God, that is true art. If it becomes a meditation, that is true art. If you become absorbed in it, so utterly absorbed that the ego disappears, that is true art.

True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief.

Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.

Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.

Trusting Him to work out your circumstances instead of using your own might and power will bring deep satisfying joy into your life.

Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.

Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.

Trust God where you cannot see Him. Do not try to penetrate the cloud He brings over you; rather look to the bow that is on it. The mystery is God's; the promise is yours.

Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God's awareness of your situation.

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.

Truth is the right designation of God.

Try to live as if there were a God

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.

Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines our highest moral and spiritual intuitions and inclinations. Yet, building that society can never be divided from the daily practices through which we live out our ethical and spiritual lives, both in the way we treat others around us, and in the way we nourish the God within us.

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

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

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.

View life as a learning opportunity. Ask God what He wants you to learn from the situations you face. . . . When we set aside specific time to listen, He often encourages us with His presence and promises, and interprets to some degree the circumstances of life. Take advantage of the natural lull after hard times when you're pulling together the pieces to sort through the events and ferret out the lessons.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.

Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.

We aim to please... You aim too, please.

We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.

We all felt the majesty of the body. In a very short period of time we had seen something that was bigger than each of us. A lot of people, even those who were not religious, were reverent and attributed the success to God. As we saw the artificial heart beat in Dr. Clark, the feeling was not aren't we great, but aren't we small.

Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face. We may not even see it as God. But it is there. It is the sense that comes over us as we stare into the starlit sky, or watch the last fiery rays of an evening sunset. It is the morning shiver as we wake on a beautiful day and smell a richness in the air that we know and love from somewhere we can't quite recall. It is the mystery behind the beginning of time and beyond the limits of space. It is a sense of otherness that brings alive something deep in our hearts.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

We are close to God when we are close to people. If we think of God as something in favor of the betterment of human beings, and if we act in a way that brings about that betterment-if we do not cling to riches, selfishness, or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

We are here to awaken to the reality of our true identity - that we are sparks of the Eternal Imperishable Spirit, who is the source of all Creation and the very essence of our being.

We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.

We are on the planet to... wrap our consciousness around the divine treasure within us.

We are sometimes tempted to believe the lie that God does not love us. Thankfully the Bible is filled with evidence that this is not true.

We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing contrary to His will can occur; therefore when the sinner disobeys His commands, He must have intended this to happen.

We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.