Georg Hermes Quotes

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

You don't have to be peculiar to find God.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

I am God's perfect son. And I am love and my life shall never lack in love.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Let your minds be filled with the goal of being like the Lord, and you will crowd out depressing thoughts as you anxiously seek to know Him and do His will.

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Fear God and work hard.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

Man makes holy what he believes.