Gao Xingjian Quotes

The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

During the primary, I heard the audible voice of God. … He said, 'Credibility.' It wasn't a thought in my head. I thought it meant I was going to win. But after the primary, I got credibility.

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

That is the voice of God because its the voice of truth and experience.

When we believe that God hears us, it is but natural that we should be eager to hear Him. Only from Him can come the word which can speak peace to troubled spirits; the voices of men are feeble in such a case, a plaster far too narrow for the sore; but God's voice is power, He speaks and it is done, and hence when we hear Him our distress is ended.

Common sense is no match for the voice of God.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only in moments of silence, which are rare and brief, that their beat can be faintly discerned. There are other times. These are the times when God is heard in rolling thunder, when the earth trembles and the treetops bend under the force of [God’s] voice. It is not given to men [and women] to make God speak. It is only given to them to live and to think in such a way that, if God’s thunder should come, they will not have stopped their ears.

If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin, do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.

What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?

In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.

What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us.

God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

I guess when I really think about it, God's voice sounds a lot like my voice.

God wants someone to defend him.

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.

God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

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.

God says, "Please, please help me realize this dream." And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream.

When He send, His messengers will go, His prophets will prophesy, though all the world should forbid them.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.