Ralph Hodgson Quotes

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

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.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

God may not explain Himself, but He will reveal Himself.

Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God.

Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

When you're connected to God, every moment is perfectly perfect.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take What You Need." Inside is the storehouse of all that God is. He invites us to share it all. He doesn't intend for us to stay on the outside and struggle all alone with the perplexities of life, and He not only invites us to come in, but to stay in. . . . It is an on-going process, not just an occasional religious-sounding speech we make to a nebulous divinity "out there somewhere." Prayer is meant to be a part of our lives, like breathing and thinking and talking.