Swami Sivananda Quotes

I define God as an energy - a spiritual energy. It has no denomination. It has no judgments.

God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

My definition of God is the highest supreme feeling of beauty and light and happiness.

God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

I think God is perfect, all-powerful and has an unstoppable plan for everyone, including those who love him and those who don't.

I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being.

God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

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

I believe that God is very real.

Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

God to me is love.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

God is simply love.

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us.

God has neither form nor color. He is incorporeal and immense. Whatever is seen in the world describes his greatness.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

The virtue of Love is nothing and all, or that Nothing visible out of which All Things proceed. Its power is through All Things; its height is as high as God; its greatness is as great as God.

I've been very blessed as far as my faith sustaining me because it's not like I haven't been challenged and I haven't been tested and disappointed. But my faith does really bind me and keep me.