Lyman Abbott Quotes

When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.

There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.

My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spirit, but yet I don't think I've written these stories from any kind of specific religious agenda because I don't think that would work.

The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.

Being with nature opens us up to divine experience.

What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in.

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

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

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

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.

Never has there been a close study of how necessary to a man are the experiences which we clumsily call aesthetic

You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion as a club, or do you see religion as a path? Do you see it as a wall that separates you or do you see it as a bridge that connects you to God and other people? When you see it as a bridge, you aren't so worried about bringing others over to your side.

One must recognise what all religious people know, which is that human beings are imperfect and fallen and there's no way in which they alone can surmount the problems which they create.

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

God knows what it's like to be a human. When I talk to him about deadlines or long lines or tough times, he understands. He's been there. He's been here.

Inner life is Divine.

One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

That with him were, what time the Love Divine

The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings, the knowledge so gained is as real as that received through the operation of the five senses. I testify of this. . . . I urge you to continue throughout your lives to cultivate a heart in tune with the Spirit. If you do so, your lives will be enriched. You will feel a kinship with God our Eternal Father. You will taste the sweetness of joy that can be had in no other way.

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

To eat is human, to digest, divine

Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, 'Holy' keeps the respect and reverence while 'Father' brings Him close & intimate.

A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.

He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.