Patti Smith Quotes

I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me

I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.

I gave my heart to the Lord, and I remember the incident vividly. The Lord spoke to me. I know that sounds funny. It was not an audible voice or anything of that nature.

Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that infuses every petal might specifically run through us, wishing only to lure us into our full potential.

You can actually see God, and Hear Him, play with Him. It might sound crazy, but He is actually there.

I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The heavens remained closed and opaque. I now realize, of course, that I had a very, very inadequate idea of God. I was expecting clouds to part, a little sort of whisper in my ear, and of course, that's not what God is. God is not another being; we are talking about something much more profound.

You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.

Well, I've always held down Guru… His spirit knows this.

Once God puts something in your heart - you know, God talks to everyone different.

I have a story that will make you believe in God.

What was it, he wondered for the hundredth time, that enabled Pastor Harris to hear the answers in his heart? What did he mean when he said he felt God’s presence? Steve supposed he could ask Pastor Harris directly, but he doubted that would do any good. How could anyone explain such a thing? It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.

I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance

The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.

If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we'd be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today - not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.

Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.

I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.

Signals from spirit all serve the same purpose; to give you back your life as a creator