Isaac of Nineveh Quotes

The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.

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

Heaven means to be one with God.

We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God; for in the will of reason we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world ruleth over us.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

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.

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

We all have that power to have a soul that magnifies God.

Jesus represents the possibilities of a new dimension of existence that transcends all the boundaries that restrict us from opening ourselves to God and allowing this source of love to flow through us.

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

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.

There's a huge yearning in our culture for something more... it's being more in touch with God... and what we were created to be.

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.