William Cowper Quotes

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love.

Love is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.