Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Only through love can we obtain communion with God.

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

You've got to listen to the universe, to life, to God, whatever you want to call it. Because its going to speak to you.

I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

I'm pretty spiritual; I believe a lot in the spirit of man.

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

I listen and talk to God daily.

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.

I definitely believe in a higher power.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.

I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.

Where love is, there God is also.

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.

People are drawn to the spiritual. It has a universal appeal.

It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.

I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!

In love's godlike breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.

You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.

My feeling, of course, is that it's ludicrous to try to prove God's existence by science. God has nothing to do with science. God has all to do with soul, and who can explain that?

The word 'yoga' means union. It's like everything in yoga yokes or unites you to something higher, the highest part of yourself.

I am probably spiritual in the sense that I do believe there is more to life than what we see.

I've felt since I was a kid this desperate longing to be closer to - I don't know what. Just to something bigger, to be in conversation with the mystery of everything.