Mary Oliver Quotes

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

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

O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God.

I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.

I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

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

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

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.

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees and houses and other objects; it is a plane of consciousness within us. Seekers of the eternal Truth will realise their eternal Heaven within their aspiring hearts.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.