Abraham Cahan Quotes

It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!

An angel of God never has wings.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus' body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

We never need to feel that we are alone or unloved in the Lord's service because we never are. We can feel the love of God. The Savior has promised angels on our left and our right to bear us up. And He always keeps His word.

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

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

God has been God in my life ever since I can remember.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.