Jack Kerouac Quotes

All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.

The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.

If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

If pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

I've felt since I was a kid this desperate longing to be closer to - I don't know what. Just to something bigger, to be in conversation with the mystery of everything.

In terms of my personal spirituality and everything else, it's ever-evolving. I have a desire to want more out of the universe. But the older I get, the further I get from any specifics about that.

Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God.

O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.

The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!

Send me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way

Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that infuses every petal might specifically run through us, wishing only to lure us into our full potential.

In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

WHEN YOU BOW deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.

God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

We are called to be contemplatives. ..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time.

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.