John Calvin Quotes

Modern man has lost any sense of God's nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has ever brought into being, whether a created object or historical event.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.

People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.

God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.

I always keep my head down, working, doing things, moving forward. That's what I've done all my life. Then you stop and realize what you've done.

There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. They query, 'Who am I? What is my name? Why am I here?

One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

In God, I move and breathe and have my being.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.

Being human means asking the questions of one's own being and living under the impact of the answers given to this question. And, conversely, being human means receiving answers to the questions of one's own being and asking questions under the impact of the answers.

O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed art thou from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere thou art wholly present, and I see thee not. In thee I move, and in thee I have my being; and I cannot come to thee. Thou art within me, and about me, and I feel thee not.

Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don't be in a hurry to sacrifice it, otherwise the greatest egoist is born: the person who thinks he is humble, the person who thinks that he has no ego.

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

If God is in everything, why shouldn't you taste Him when you eat?

The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself.

Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present.

I have sounded the very base-string of humility.

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.