Dick Dale Quotes

Surfing is my religion, if I have one.

Big waves are a whole different ball game. You're riding a wave with an immense amount of speed and power, generally over 10 meters. On the face of the wave, obviously life and death thoughts start to happen.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

Surfing is very special and unique. It's really hard to explain unless you've tried it. It's being out in the ocean in the sun, the water on your skin, and the adrenalin rush when you catch a wave. You have to be creative so it's like an art form in a way.

I love the ocean and have a passion for surfing, even though I'm not very good at it. I like getting out there and paddling around.

I definitely love beaches. I love to surf. I love to fish, and I'm always in need of a suntan.

I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which really complement each other. There's definitely a spiritual thing to both of them; they totally connect you to a higher realm.

Surfing is my passion because I love being active on the water.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.

God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.

I get to surf every day.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.

I love having the opportunity to surf.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.

When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

Honestly, I'm not a big person in terms of religion, but I really believe in nature. I feel like anytime you see anything beautiful in nature that's the closest I'm ever going to get to God or a sense of a higher power.