J. D. Salinger Quotes

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

There's these things we do that take us into the zone - and we go in that place that I feel like is the place of love that you reach when you're in love or making love, or you're having a good conversation. I feel like that is God.

God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.

And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.

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.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.

I believe that there is God in all of us.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

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.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

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.

Only when all images of Earth are hushed and the clamor of the senses be stilled, and the soul has passed beyond thought of self, can the eternal wisdom be revealed to the mystic who seeks that highest communion with the unseen.

We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

Every human heart has a deep need to love - to be in love, really, with all of life. This is the kind of love that comes when the mind is still. . . . Be still and know that we are all God’s children; then you will be in love with all.

If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.

He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.

The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.