Henry David Thoreau Quotes

What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.

In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me. I know this is God.

Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.

God cannot be explained... God can only be lived.

I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God.

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.

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

From a very young age, I would fall off the bed and wake up on the floor because of dreams. I have a memory from the age of four in which I felt God.

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.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body.

I saw Jesus walk into my bedroom.

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.

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

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

We heard God speak today. God in the flesh. The voice of God.