Sun Ra Quotes

No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.

People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.

I call it the birth vision - what we are called to accomplish. If we follow this calling, we help spiritualize the planet.

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.

I didn’t come here to seek a power or to get a chairmanship. I wanted to do what I think my Lord wants me to do.

It is you who have called us unto this office; but being thus called we have our authority from God;

Here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.

For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.

God uses people. God uses people to perform His work. He does not send angels. Angels weep over it, but God does not use angels to accomplish His purposes. He uses burdened broken-hearted weeping men and women.

I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. This is my calling, to open doors of truth and make people think, to arouse others from their apathetic and lethargic state, and get them to seek out for themselves the inner peace which dwells within. This is the extent of my undertaking, I can do no more. The rest I leave to a higher power.

I know that God is working through me within this sport. I know He's put me here for a purpose and it's not just to win medals. Winning is great and hopefully it gives me a platform to spread His love and spread His Word, but at the end of the day, I'm called to do what He wants me to do.

There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.

God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

There is a voice in the Universe urging us to remember our purpose for being on this great Earth. This is the voice of inspiration, which is within each and every one of us.

The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.

We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We just have to have faith, and faith is a gift. We just need to accept it.

The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did it. Their people followed them - sometimes to triumph, oftener to insults and public persecution - and their sufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world!

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.