Seeking the Divine Quotes

We are called to be contemplatives. ..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time.

The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?

Love is a way of seeing and a way of being that honors God in everyone we meet. And it changes us in the most fundamental way. All we need to do is welcome the challenge of our relationships, training our eyes to look beyond human behavior to the Presence within. When we seek to live love, we discover through our interactions with others the divinity within ourselves.

God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of worldly possessions for the worldly man, the child's attraction for its mother, and the husband's attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions, then through it one can attain Him.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you have given up.. if we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be.. a prudent insurance policy.

My way towards God has been to write music.

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.

I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.