Quotes About God

Søren Kierkegaard, the famed Danish theologian, once put it, "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Always keep the thought of God's abundance in mind. If any other thought comes, replace it with that of God's abundance. Remind yourself every day that the universe can't be miserly; it can't be wanting. It holds nothing but abundance, or as St. Paul stated so perfectly, "God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance." Repeat these ideas on abundance until they radiate as your inner truth.

I don't believe that God is concerned with whether or not we show our love by building magnificent edifices for worship, by attending services, or through practicing rules laid down by religious organizations. It seems to me that if God were to speak to us, the message would simply be to love each other and offer reverence rather than enmity toward all of life.

The spiritual journey does not consist in arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning one's self and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one's self.

Saint Francis. "When we pray to God," he said, "we must be seeking nothing—nothing.

to see the unfolding of God in everyone and when it comes to external appearances, to be a humanistic teacher who wouldn't even notice.

The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. It cannot come where there is conflict; for a mind at war against itself remembers not eternal gentleness. . . . What you remember is a part of you. For you must be as God created you. . . . Let all this madness be undone for you, and turn in peace of the remembrance of God, still shining in your quiet mind.

You who seek God, apart, apart The thing you seek, thou art, thou art. If you want to seek the Beloved's face. Polish the mirror, gaze into that space. These words were written by Rumi as a tribute for his master guru Shams of Tabriz.

The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, / Hath had elsewhere its setting, / And cometh from afar . . . From God, who is our home.

when the greatness of the Tao (God) is present, action arises from one's heart;

The power of an idea whose time has come is really the power of Spirit at work. Equality for all is how God is, for instance, and we seek to be like God. When enough of us, along with one or two at visionary consciousness, begin to contemplate these in-Spirit ideas, they can't be stopped.

Love yourself as God does, for yourself alone.

we're all instruments for Tao or God or whatever you call the energy that writes the books, delivers the speeches, makes the lifesaving discoveries, and so on.

Affirm: I am love, I am God, I am worthy, I am infinite, silently and out loud.

A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct.

Spirit is the life of God within us" (Saint Teresa of Avila)

My conclusion about my origination is that I came from Spirit, and my true essence is that I am what I came from. I am a Divine piece of God. I am first and always a spiritual being inextricably connected to my Source of being.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego.

1. I am what I have. My possessions define me. 2. I am what I do. My achievements define me. 3. I am what others think of me. My reputation defines me. 4. I am separate from everyone. My body defines me as alone. 5. I am separate from all that is missing in my life. My life space is disconnected from my desires. 6. I am separate from God. My life depends on God's assessment of my worthiness.

As we become one with our Source, we begin the realignment process, thinking and contemplating more like God. We gain the wisdom necessary to understand these words written by Thomas Troward: "If you contemplate with thoughts that match originating Spirit, you have the same power as originating Spirit." This idea is anathema to the ego. But the wholeness, the oneness, that we truly are, is revealed as we begin trusting the wisdom that created us.

If we are told that God is love, then we shouldn't just say it in our place of worship during a ceremonial weekly religious service. We must live it.

own eyes and ears tell me is true. I am is the name that God used to identify

the word enthusiasm is "the God within.

forgiveness is a tool that's available to get us back to a God-realized life.