Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us.

In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

You can't speak openly about everything.

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

The plans of God are only revealed in the presence of God.

I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.

Study the Bible to know about God. Obey the Bible to really know God.

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others.

I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul