“We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 129 of 1176
“God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.”
“When you don't want to be interesting, you are free.”
“We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.”
“We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
“The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us from this world. This Divine preparation opens our souls to the working and pruning of the Father.”
“In silence one can receive more because all one's activities become concentrated at one point. There is only one real rhythm; in silence you hear it. When you live to the rhythm of this silence, you become it, slowly; everything you do, you do to it.”
“When people are truly dedicated to the Divine, there is no difference between action and prayer.”
“I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.”
“True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.”
“You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.”
“You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.”
“Whatever good works ye send on before [death]... ye shall find with God.”
“The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion.”
“Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life.”
“Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.”
“The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.”
“when one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is.”
“Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.”
“She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.”