Joseph Joubert Quotes

A God alone can comprehend a God.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

We have all of us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry within ourselves a key to all the treasures that heaven has to bestow upon us. We starve in the midst of plenty, groan under infirmities, with the remedy in our own hand; live and die without knowing and feeling anything of the One only God, whilst we have it in our power to know and enjoy it in as great a reality as we know and feel the power of this world over us; for Heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies; and we are created, we are redeemed, to have our conversation in it.

God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living.

God cannot be realized through intellect.

When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is.

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

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.

Does God understand you? Find the answer in Bethlehem.

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.

Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.

We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.

I know a lot less about God, but the things I know about God, I know a whole lot more, for sure.

Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.

No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present.

When the Spirit illuminates the heart, then a part of the man sees which never saw before; a part of him knows which never knew before, and that with a kind of knowing which the most acute thinker cannot imitate.

None but God is wise.