Salman Rushdie Quotes

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Over the years, my relationship with God has changed my life for the better - it's grown me up, given me a sense of purpose, and grounded me in my identity.

There's a huge yearning in our culture for something more... it's being more in touch with God... and what we were created to be.

A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness . . . Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full.

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with 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.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

I don't know anyone who doesn't have an empty spot at the center of him, which must be filled in order to be really happy. That spot, like it or not, is reserved for God.

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ

Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him.

When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.