Mary Antin Quotes

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.

For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness.

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

I still believe there is a lot of truth in Orthodox Judaism, but not the whole truth. Each person has his truth that he has to discover. You don't necessarily have to mold yourself to another idea of who you are.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

I don't have a preferred religion - I'd have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as I've grown into my own man, I don't attach myself to a religion - 100 per cent, I have faith. Then it's locking into what suits me.

I pursue God on a daily basis, I'm not stepping into oblivion.

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing.... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.

Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.

We all have our own paths. That's the important thing of this movie. God's waiting there for everybody. Be true to who you are and true to your values - not to media, not to the influence of friends necessarily or people even that you admire. Be true to your heart and you'll find that path.

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.