Anthony de Mello Quotes

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.

Where love is, there God is also.

Joy is the grace we say to God.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

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

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call 'the epiphanies of infancy' - the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything - yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling.

In our heart, in the heart of each of you, let there be always the joyous certainty that the Lord is near, that he does not abandon us, that he is near to us, and that he surrounds us with his love.

God is in my heart; I see God in my daughter and my mother.

Good friends find pleasure in one another's company. Let us know pleasure in the company of our best Friend, a Friend who can do everything for us, a friend who loves us beyond measure. Here in the Blessed Sacrament we can talk to him straight from the heart. We can open our souls to him, tell him what we need, beg him for powerful graces. We are perfectly free to approach the King of the universe with full confidence and without fear.

Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.

God is near whether you sense His presence or not.

We have God's joy in our blood.

God is no further from you on your worst day than He is on your best day. Just open your heart to receive Him and His love.

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses, and the voice I hear falling on my ear the son of God discloses. And he walks with me, and he talks with me. And he tells me I am his own, and the joy we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known.

If you find it difficult to love the human in someone, then love the divine in him. The divine in him is God. God exists in that person just as God exists in you. To love God is extremely easy because God is divine and perfect. Each time you look at an individual, if you can consciously become aware of God's existence in him, then you will not be disturbed by his or her imperfections or limitations.