Vinoba Bhave Quotes

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

I don't really feel like I have anybody to answer to but myself and God and the people I love.

God has leveraged the human spirit to move in His direction, and all the material we need to bring a person to the realization that they were created by God actually already exists inside that person.

The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it.

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

Follow your heart and make it your decision.

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.

Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.

In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul

Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.

If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.