Epictetus Quotes

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

I believe divinity is within us.

There is a god within us.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

God is in all - I believe in God, yes. And I believe God is in us.

The Commandments of God are higher than all the treasures of the earth. Whoever has acquired them has received God within himself.

Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?

Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is.

We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.

If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation in the divine in himself and the realization of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aim possible to man on earth.

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.

To me, the Virgen de Guadalupe is just a vessel for me to recognize my own God within myself.

I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.

Christ is your God-essence or the Self, as it is sometimes called in the East. The only difference between Christ and presence is that Christ refers to your indwelling divinity regardless of whether you are conscious of it or not, whereas presence means your awakened divinity or God-essence.

It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.

I think God is in us. I think we manifest God in every moment.

The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God.