Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

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.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

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

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

The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

I believe that there is God in all of us.

I think there's a passion for God like never before.

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Honestly, I'm not a big person in terms of religion, but I really believe in nature. I feel like anytime you see anything beautiful in nature that's the closest I'm ever going to get to God or a sense of a higher power.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit has to be made alive - that's the real part, the part that God speaks to.