Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.

Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.

We are all in Christ's energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so that's what I do.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.

God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.

The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.

Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a celestial burning took Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then --

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig down in the mines You never see Him in the gold, Though from Him all that's glory shines. God is so good, He wears a fold Of heaven and earth across His face - Like secrets kept, for love, untold. But still I feel that His embrace Slides down by thrills, through all things made, Through sight and sound of every place: As if my tender brother laid On my shut lids, her kisses' pressure, Half waking me at night; and said, "Who kissed through the dark, dear guesser?"

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.

T is the Divinity that stirs within us.

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.