Emily Dickinson Quotes

The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.

Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.

Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven

Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.

I wish I could help everyone to understand this one simple fact: we believe in God because of things we know with our heart and mind, not because of things we do not know. Our spiritual experiences are sometimes too sacred to explain in worldly terms, but that doesn't mean they are not real.

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

For some people, maybe my artwork just seems like fantasy or something. However, if you have had any kind of a mystical or cosmic experience, I guess, then people seem to recognize the territory.

Everything God wants you to know is already written in your heart.

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.

Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

I know I have a place in Heaven waiting for me because of Him, and that's something no earthly prize or trophy could ever top.

Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.

An excellent angler, and now with God.

O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day.

I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

Faith is not in your head. Faith is in your heart. Sometimes you have to turn your mind off and listen to your heart.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill

I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.