Ernest Shackleton Quotes

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

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

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

I feel God when I find myself in a situation which spontaneously opens me to the larger reality that exists all around.

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace.

I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.

Art is the path to being spiritual.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there's no Andrae; there's no fabulous band, there's no greatness of ours. I've had hundreds of concerts like that, and that's what I try to achieve.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.