Hamza Yusuf Quotes

A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

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

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.

I don't know anyone who doesn't have an empty spot at the center of him, which must be filled in order to be really happy. That spot, like it or not, is reserved for God.

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.

In L.A., I feel God more than I do in a church.

I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

The most common way Jesus comes into our lives is through a broken heart.

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.

Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.

Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.

Sometimes the most difficult things to see are those that have been right in front of us all along… We who have heard the glorious message of the coming of the Son of God, we who have taken upon us His name and have covenanted to walk in His path as His disciples—we must not fail to open our hearts and minds and truly see Him.

Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent.

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

Be still and turn within to the great source.

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

I wake up every morning and it's like when you break up with somebody who has really broken your heart.

When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space.

I can definitely relate to Jacob's feelings in Breaking Dawn. When he gets the invitation to the wedding, he doesn't handle it very well. And I don't think I would either. If I were in love with a girl and she told me she was marrying somebody else, that would crush me. And that's what it does. It destroys Jacob.