Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

One of the things I've realized is how portable God is. No really, He's everywhere!

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.

Why must holy places be dark places?

The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.

God is in the tiger as well as in the lamb.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist.

My personal belief is we should not bow to any object. But Islam was aware of this human weakness and fulfilled that need through Haj to kiss a stone. A stone is a stone but the vacuum was filled and it became the holiest object. I have performed Haj and seen the devotion of people braving stampedes only to kiss that stone.

All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.

Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not. In every atom, He alone is present. From the ant to the universe, He spreads. The Lord who cares equally for all, the compassionate one who is all knowledge, tenderness, skill, holiness and beauty - He stands on all sides everywhere.

All existence is a manifestation of God.

God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.

One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High above all he sits, sublimer than mountains, grander than storms, sweeter than blossoms and tender fruits, nobler than lords, truer than parents, more loving than lovers. His feet tread the lowest places of the earth; but his head is above all glory, and everywhere he is supreme.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

God's presence is all that matters.