Alice Walker Quotes

The song that starts with 'Neene Rama, neene Shama, neene Allah, neene Yesu,' is very profound. It exhorts people to stop looking for god everywhere and to instead look within themselves.

I believe that there is God in all of us.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

God is in all - I believe in God, yes. And I believe God is in us.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.

Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.

If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.

Find god - he isn't hiding from you, you're hiding from him.

All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.

I came to believe in a power much higher than I

If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.

All existence is a manifestation of God.

When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

There is a god within us.

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

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.

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

Honestly, I'm not a big person in terms of religion, but I really believe in nature. I feel like anytime you see anything beautiful in nature that's the closest I'm ever going to get to God or a sense of a higher power.

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

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.