Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Conscience is God present in man.

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

I believe in a higher force that is within me.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.

And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

Try to live as if there were a God

If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.

One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to.

There doesn't need to be a God for me. There's something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike. I don't feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don't really know if it's better to just not believe in anything, either.

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

I realize that people need something to believe in.

God is real. God is in me and in my life. I've been blessed, and he continues to bless me, and that is one thing that I will always know for sure.

I really believe that God and religion is two different things.

I don't believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.

I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God.

Religion will never show the way.

About Jesus we must believe no one but himself.

Faith just doesn't have anything to do with what I'm doing as a scientist. It's nice if you can believe in God, because then you see more of a purpose in things. Even if you don't, though, it doesn't mean that there's no purpose. It doesn't mean that there's no goodness. I think that there's a virtue in being good in and of itself. I think that one can work with the world we have.

I just think it's strange when people say, "There is no God." Because I feel so connected to people and things that I just can't deny that there's a God who wants us to tell good stories and be the best we can be and forgive and be forgiven, even if we're not the best we can be. I really believe innately that we do the best we can.

The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.

I define God as an energy. A spiritual energy. It has no denomination, it has no judgment, it has an energy that when we're connected to it we know why we're here and what we're here to do.