Israel Houghton Quotes

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of 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.

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

If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit has to be made alive - that's the real part, the part that God speaks to.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Spirituality is invisible. Never forget that. If you can see it, if it's dressed in funny robes, if it's up there to be looked at, if it's making a big performance of itself, it is not spirituality. It is ego.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.