Marva Collins Quotes

As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

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.

To feel the grace of God in a painting of the dear, quiet commonness of a domestic interior, or in a landscape, seascape, cityscape, trains us to feel the grace of God in the thing itself in situ.

God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

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

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

I always had a relationship with God as early as 8 years old. I can remember having these conversations with God. I'd go in the bathroom and look in the mirror and talk to myself, but then I knew I was not the only one present.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.

We mustn't reserve communing with God just for morning and evening prayers, or for weekly worship service, or for when we feel burdened. The goal is to realize that every moment of our lives is a meditation. Allow yourself to marvel at the wonder of God's work all around us. Throughout your day, let the sun, a tree, a piece of fruit remind you that everything you could ever want has been provided and can be found right here on earth.

We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.

I have picked up on the terminology of Brother Lawrence, who called praying unceasingly practicing God's presence. In fact, practicing God's presence has been my number one goal for the last year