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Quotes About Divine

The holy will not be contained. We like to think we can capture, preserve, and cultivate it in buildings, liturgies, curricula, a holy land, people, language. All these, at best, are reminders that direct our attention to God.
~ Susan S. Phillips
I think you must be the very answer to my prayers - Lord Refrow
~ Susan Spencer Paul
Y'all can think of me as the voice of God. I say it, you obey it, or there'll be hell to pay.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?
~ Suzanne Finnamore
God works in mysterious ways, baby, and there is never more evidence of this than when your life is going along fairly well, actually sailing. The sensation of wind through your hair becomes, for an extremely brief time, commonplace. It is then that God lowers the cosmic boom. He will not show up; that is the kind view. The unkind view is that he sits back to watch with a high-ball and a bowl of nuts.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
It's impressive how God attends to the details.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
Man, the Russians believed, found his most profound fulfillment and was most himself when he glorified God. In the act of worshipping God, a divine energy was released which permitted him to surpass himself and to participate in the divine life, even on earth.
~ Suzanne Massie
Man, the Russians believed, found his most profound fulfillment and was mos himself when he glorified God. In the act of worshipping God, a divine energy was released which permitted him to surpass himself and to participate in the divine life, even on earth.
~ Suzanne Massie
When God grants us the desire of our heart, it is not just because we have asked Him for it. He gives it to us, if it coincides with His plan for our life. When our desire aligns with His will, great is our joy.
~ Svetozar Kraljevic
By concentrated meditation—in other words, by the stilling and focusing of the vibrations of consciousness (chitta vritti nirodha)—the individualized soul is enabled to reverse this process and thus perceive its subtler reality, its Divine origin, its true Self.
~ Swami Abhayananda
Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman invented a technique called "gastral projection" to help release these traumas. His philosophy was simple: "To air is human ... but to really cut one loose is divine.
~ Swami Beyondananda
That which you call the devil is part of you. The myth of the devil and of evil is imposed on us by our ignorance. The human mind is a great wonder and magician. It can assume the form of both a devil and a divine being any time it wishes. It can be a great enemy or a great friend, creating either hell or heaven for us. There are many tendencies hidden in the unconscious mind which must be uncovered, faced, and transcended before one intends to tread the path of enlightenment.
~ Swami Rama
A master's divine love is not that of human love but is something which only the heart, and never the mind, is capable of understanding. In a true spiritual tradition the teacher gives so much to his student that the student's life is over-whelmed and transformed.
~ Swami Rama
Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.
~ Swami Sivananda
Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.
~ Swami Vivekananda
God did not give me everything that i wanted. But, He gave me everything that i needed!
~ Swami Vivekananda
God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted He Gave Me Everything I Needed.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Put the good before them, see how eagerly they take it, see how the divine that never dies, that is always living in the human...
~ Swami Vivekananda
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Our words have not the power of the words that become Vedas.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth.
~ Swami Vivekananda
You cannot die nor can I.
~ Swami Vivekananda
He has seen the glory of the Self
~ Swami Vivekananda
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
~ Ansel Adams