Rumi Quotes

You can't hide God in you. God was not meant to become part of you, and you hide out in the closet. I don't think He wanted that. I think He wanted people to see the Christ in you that reflects Him.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

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

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of 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.

The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence.

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees and houses and other objects; it is a plane of consciousness within us. Seekers of the eternal Truth will realise their eternal Heaven within their aspiring hearts.

I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.

Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.

Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration.