Aldous Huxley Quotes

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.

God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.

Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

God is there only if you surrender. Surrender makes anything God. Surrender give you the eyes, and everything that is brought to these eyes becomes Divine.

Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.

Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.