John Burroughs Quotes

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.

God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.

As the more holy we are upon earth the more happy we must be.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

The divine is in all things.

Earth's crammed with Heaven.

Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

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

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.