Quotes About Divine

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

Men are given to complaining of unanswered prayer, but the great disasters are due to answered prayers.

There is one sense, however, in which answer to prayer can always be depended on, if a man has kept his life at all in harmony with God. Even when God cannot answer affirmatively the man's petition he can answer the man.

There are many prayers that God must not answer, but there are no good prayers which God cannot answer.

Prayer is hunger and thirst. Prayer is our demand on life, elevated, purified, and aware of a Divine Alliance.

In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. And in the long run, it's better to please God—He's more apt to remember.

O, I have known metallic paradisesWhere cuckoos clucked to finchesAbove the deft catastrophes of drums.While titters hailed the groans of deathBeneath gyrating awnings I have seenThe incunabula of the divine grotesque.

Verily, We have created all things with Qadar (Divine Preordainments of all things before their creation)" (Surat al-Qamar, 54:49) "No misfortune befalls on the earth or in yourselves but is inscribed in the Book of Decrees, before We bring it into existence. Verily, that is easy for Allah." (Surat al-Hadid, 57:22)

They said, "Glory be to You! We have no knowledge except what You have taught us. You are the All-Knowing, the All-Wise." (Surat al-Baqara, 32)

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

Intend to be Love And know death for what it is: The inbreath of God.

The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality.

What is rooted out in the quest of truth is ignorance; it is entirely removed from the heart, and the outlook becomes wide; as wide as the Eye of God; therein is born the divine Spirit, the spirit, which is called Divinity.

And the beauty of music is that it is both the source of creation and the means of absorbing it. In other words, by music the world was created, and by music it is withdrawn again into the source which has created it.

When the soul is attuned to God, every action becomes music.

Ist die Seele auf Gott gestimmt, so wird jedes Tun zu Musik.

When the healer thinks he is healing, his power is as small as a drop; when he thinks God is healing, and when owing to this thought his own self is forgotten and he is only conscious of the Self of God, then his power becomes as large as the ocean. (Inayat Khan's advice to healers)

Wenn wir es schaffen unsere Unruhe zu bändigen und friedlich zu werden, unseren Willen dem Willen Gottes zu ergeben, dann beginnen wir die Liebe Gottes in allen Dingen zu erleben, und denken nie wieder, dass Gott etwas anders als Liebe sein könnte. Deshalb denken die Sufis an Gott nicht immer als Schöpfer, König oder Richter; sondern sie sehen in Gott den Geliebten, die Geliebte, den Liebenden, die Liebende, und die Liebe selbst. (S. 183)

There is a perfect wisdom working continually day and night. The mystic sees it in everything with open eyes; and that is the great miracle.

SUFISM has never had a first exponent or a historical origin. It existed from the beginning, because man has always possessed the light which is his second nature; and light in its higher aspect may be called the knowledge of God, the divine wisdom – in fact, Sufism. Sufism has always been practiced and its messengers have been people of the heart; thus it belonged to the masters as well as to others.

Ich arbeite einfach, ohne mich um die Ergebnisse zu kümmern. Die mir übertragene Arbeit nach bestem Können zu verrichten, ist meine Befriedigung, und die Auswirkungen überlasse ich dem Urgrund aller Dinge. 

Für die erleuchtete Seele wird das Leben selbst zur Heiligen Schrift.

Als Mensch vermagst du ein Wesen zu lieben; die Seele jedoch, als Licht Gottes, vermag nicht nur die ganze Welt, sondern tausend Welten zu lieben; denn das menschliche Herz ist weiter als das ganze Weltall.