Elizabeth George Quotes

May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.

Enjoy life's moments. Do not take them for granted, because you never know which one will be the last. Also, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things will be added unto you. In other words, get your priorities straight; figure out what really matters, and focus on that.

Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.

God is not a diversion.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void.

Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

When you have no helpers, see your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers. When you have nothing but God, see all in God. When you have everything, see God in everything. Under all conditions, stay thy heart only on the Lord.

Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone.

Where sanity is there God is.

It starts with vision, and the clarity of vision

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.

Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him.

A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

No meditation, no life. Know meditation, know life.

Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.

...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.

While we are on the go, we need to stop between steps, to refocus on the Word and the will of God

If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.