George William Russell Quotes

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

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

There's a huge yearning in our culture for something more... it's being more in touch with God... and what we were created to be.

The Creator of the seas, sands, and endless stars is reaching out to you this very day! He is offering the grand recipe for happiness, peace, and eternal life!

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

There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, 'The Intoxication of Life,' 'The Purpose of Life,' 'The Real Cause of Man's Distress,' 'The Journey to the Goal in Life,' and, one of my favorites, 'The Heart of Man.' They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Islam is about finding your own space.

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

Over the years, my relationship with God has changed my life for the better - it's grown me up, given me a sense of purpose, and grounded me in my identity.

The closest you'll get to God, ever, in your existence, is measured by how close you get to yourself. Because your connection with God is you. He created you. That is the ultimate connection you have with God is you.

Your soul is between you and God.

I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there is nothing of it here to be sought or found, but only hope and fair promises; and that Christ will give us nothing here but tears, sadness, crosses; and that we shall never feel the smell of the flowers of that high garden of paradise above, till we come there. Nay, but I find it possible to find young glory, and a young green paradise of joy even here. We dream of hunger in Christ's house, while we are here, although He alloweth feasts to all the bairns within God's household.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.