Saint Ignatius Quotes

Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.

Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

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.

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

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.

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

There is no such things as God's word on earth. Or if there is it is not to be found in books. -Then where is it to be found?- In love. In the laughter of children. In a gift given. In a life saved. In the quiet of morning. In the dead of night. In the sound of the ocean, or the sound of a car. It can be found in anything, anywhere. It is the fabric of our lives, our feelings, the people we live with, things we know to be real.

God and eternal things are my only pleasure.

Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in

If I can find out God, then I shall find Him,If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly,Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, A lamp in darkness.

Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.

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.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

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

I believe that there is God in all of us.

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

I believe that miracles happen every day. Every person is a miracle. Every moment is a miracle. If only we can open our eyes, we'll see God's love everywhere.

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.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

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

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.