Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most people are lost, confused, alienated. They suffer and struggle immensely in relationships. We have to proclaim loudly and clearly in our actions and in our words that God loves us that we belong to him. That's a call to the mystical life.

Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

The business and method of mysticism is love.

Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.

The only unhappiness is not to love God.

The body and the soul join in doing the work of the soul, ie. praying, meditating, praising and coming in communion with God.

If you are not radiant with joy and friendliness, if you are not filled to overflowing with love and goodwill for all beings and all creatures and all creation, one thing is certain: you do not know God!

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

The whole world is looking for miracles. Every day it is dying to see miracles. But can there be any miracle More challenging, more illumining And more fulfilling Than to see and feel the infinite Beauty Of my Beloved Supreme Inside this tinier than the tiniest Gratitude-heart of mine?

Meditation isn't just something we do to make ourselves more peaceful and to take some of the stress out of our lives. We do it because it's the only direct experience we can have of knowing God. Because God is that which is indivisible. Everything else in the universe, in the physical world, is divisible. Up and down, good and bad, right and wrong, male and female, and so on. But that which is indivisible in our physical experience is called silence. And when you get into silence, you're coming to know the indivisibleness of your life - and that's conscious contact.

Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union.

I had a deep experience of God's love for me.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

Love is the Song of the Soul singing to God.

An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened the heavens in this dispensation

God is an experience of supreme love.

religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.