T. E. Lawrence Quotes

When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.

God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

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.

I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

You are within God. God is within you.

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

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

Where love is, there God is also.

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

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

I live in the space where God is. There is no question that that is why I am where I am, and why I have had the success that I've had, is because I allow myself to be guided by that which is greater than myself - than my personality.

When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.

In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility, and be content to be in Him and to do whatever He wills, according to our limitations, judging our acts not in the light of our own illusions, but in the light of His reality which is all around us in the things and people we live with.

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.