Nicholas Sparks Quotes

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

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

I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.

If you believe that there is a God, then you know that God doesn't show his face. He speaks to you, you feel him, but you've never seen him.

Faith is not merely a journey for the feet, but it is also a journey for the heart.

Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you.

Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." These words are literally true, not figures or fiction. They were the outflow of the heart's blood of one of the greatest sons of God who have ever come to this world of ours; words which came as the fruit of realisation, from a man who had felt and realised God himself; who had spoken with God, lived with God, a hundred times more intensely than you or I see this building.

If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.

So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.

Prayer is the way to both the heart of God and the heart of the world - precisely because they have been joined through the suffering of Jesus Christ Praying is letting one's own heart become the place where the tears of God's children merge and become tears of hope.

I wanted to say, "Hey, Pope Francis," but I cried like a baby. I was reduced to a very humble set of feelings, because it was not about what was said: There's a presence. That was a blessing for myself and my family and everyone there to be a part of that.

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality, the Absolute, or the One who holds us in being. I do believe that God is beyond any form and image, but it has grown clear to me that I need an image in order to relate. I need an image in order to carry on an intimate conversation with what is so vast, amorphous, mysterious, and holy that it becomes ungraspable. I mean, really, how to you become intimate with Divine Reality? Or the Absolute?

We need not just one flash of light and comfort, but we need the continuing blessing of communication with God.

You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father.

There are times when I draw near enough to touch Him, then I know that He has been there all the time

Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come.