Jean Paul Quotes

The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips.

I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

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.

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

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

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.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.