M. Scott Peck Quotes

I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.

What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

In the faces of men and women, I see God.

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

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

We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the Spirit of the Lord that I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life.

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.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

I believe God is in the details.

In L.A., I feel God more than I do in a church.

People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.

Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

This Catholic thing, I think what it does is it makes a place for mystery in a person. And even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

Either all days are holy or none are.

Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.