Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.

I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

To me, the soul is a part of us that never dies. It's what we come in with.

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

You're not what you have and you're not what you do; you're aninfinite, divine being disguised as a successful person who has accumulated a certain amount of stuff. The stuff is not you. For that reason, you must avoid being attached to it in any way.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.

The truth is that we are a part of God. God could not have created anything except out of his own consciousness. We're all his dream, and our duty in life that God has assigned to us, that the universe has placed squarely in our laps, is to find out who we really are. "Gnothi seauton," as the Greeks used to say. "Know thyself." But to know thyself, if you trace it back, to the deeper and deeper levels, you discover that that self is not your body or your ego or your personality or your country or anything, that's just a sack of self-definitions that you carry around with you

Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.

We are aspects of Divinity, in the process of knowing ourselves experientially.

The real you is on the side of God against the false self

Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

God is best known in not knowing him.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.