Janet Fitch Quotes

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

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

We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

The groves were God's first temples.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

Those who understand nature walk with God.

I’m not Buddhist, I’m not Hindu, I’m not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God.

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth.

One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.

If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you.

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.

Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God.

When I realized this fear, this uncertainty, this potential of dying, I guess I needed something greater to hold onto than what we can see, touch, and smell-and that was the spiritual aspect of God, the nature of God and his relationship to humans.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Nature is saturated with Deity.

‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there is no earth under us nor is there sky above, but only Allah who is supporting us in this emptiness. Then we realise our worth – it is not more than a grain of sand or the leaf of a plant. Then we realise our existence is only confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit of difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.

Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger

The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.

The person is only a phenomenon, the principle is behind it. Thus from both sides, simultaneously, we find the breaking down of personalities and the approach towards principles, the Personal God approaching the Impersonal, the personal man approaching the Impersonal Man.

All things are full of gods.