Henry Van Dyke Quotes

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

A vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work; like watching the waves from the beach. But you will not get to Newfoundland by studying the Atlantic, and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in Flowers or music.

When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.

I was raised a Catholic, but with very liberal parents, so I had to find my spirituality. I've been looking for it since I was a child. I would find it in pieces of art, music, flowers, trees. Now I've come full circle finding God in clouds, flowers, and trees.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

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

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

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

I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

I am trying to get closer to God.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.

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

Being with nature opens us up to divine experience.

That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

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

Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.

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