God Quotes

“That infant's short life glorified you. And because of this fact, we can be quite confident that he sits at your right hand. And he may be counted with the Angels, and on the day of judgement it will be him, the immaculate, judging me, the sinner. We can be confident, but can we be sure?”
― George Fisher

“Just because we are waiting for something doesn't mean we don't need to take steps to get there.”
― Ashley Hetherington, The Joy of the In-Between: 100 Devotions for Trusting God in Your Waiting Season: A Devotional

“Had there been nothing before God? Or had He woken from primordial sleep to find His hands bloody, the body of another at His feet?”
― Rafael Nicolás, Horns For Hell

“Someone forgive me for this.' "I'm sorry, Asmodeus," Rosier had whispered, his heart aching, his body trembling in the darkness of the cave. 'If I cannot ask God for forgiveness anymore, then I can only ask you. I don't have Gid at all anymore; I only have you.”
― Rafael Nicolás, Horns For Hell

“God is herenow, always herenow. God is THIS very condition.

He is THIS very condition! THIS MOMENT, within and without, God is.

And God is not something sacred, holy, far away again in heaven. God is all the conditions - and when I say all, I mean all: the sacred/the profane, the body/the soul, matter/consciousness. The lowest of the low is God. and the holiest of the holy is God, and there is not any difference between the two.

To understand it is to relax. Then there is nowhere to go, then there is nothing to do. Then what is left is celebration, then what is left is to live joyously. Rejoice moment-to-moment, and don't divide things.

Drinking tea is as sacred as doing yoga. Sleeping silently, relaxed, is as sacred as prayer. Looking at a tree, talking to a friend, walking early in the morning, working in the factory or in the office, is as holy as anything else. This is the understanding that is needed for Tao to happen.

Tao is already happening; just your misunderstanding... Tao is already showering - in the sunrays, on the green trees. But you just think, "This is just the sun and they are just the trees - where is God? These are just people - where is God?" You want God to be something specific, and that's why you miss...
God is not something special, not something specific. God is all these conditions, God is this totality. This moment - my talking to you, your listening to me, this communion, this silence, this bridging - yes, this is God, this is Tao.

So forget all about achieving. Don't become an achiever. My sannyasins have to drop all kinds of ambitions - material. worldly and spiritual - all.

My teaching to you is: live herenow! Drop ALL kinds of ambitions. This is sannyas: drop ALL kinds of ambitions, and see the miracle happening. Once you drop all ambitions you will have so much energy left that there will be no way other than to celebrate. You will have so much energy in you - all the energy that is involved in ambitions is released because ambitions have been dropped - and that energy becomes an oceanic experience within your soul. That is paradise, that is God.

God is not a goal, but an experience of a non-ambitious mind. Tao has not to be achieved! The achievers go on missing it. The non-achievers suddenly realize that they have always lived in paradise, but because of their ambitions they were not able to see it.

..just try to understand what I am sharing with you. I am sharing with you this moment, this space. I am not giving you any goals. I am not driving you crazy for some achievement in the future.

I am not inspiring you to run and chase some shadows. I am simply imparting to you what has happened to me. I want it to be shared with you. Dropping all ambition, I have arrived.

Drop all ambitions and just be, and see the beauty and the benediction of existence.

It is incredible, it is simply far-out! You have never dreamt about it, how beautiful it is. You could not have dreamt about it, it surpasses all your imaginations and fantasies. Its beauty is unbelievable, and the grace that is showering on you is just showering for no reason at all. It is very unreasonable! God does not give you because you are worthy. God gives you because He has so much, He cannot contain it!”
― Osho

“If you want enlightenment to happen ever, you have to be ready to wait for it. Even if it comes in eternity you are ready to accept it, you are not in a hurry. Then it can come instantly too. A man who is ready to wait forever is very relaxed, knows no tension, no anxiety, no anguish. In that relaxed moment, satori, samadhi, enlightenment is possible.

You attain to enlightenment only when there is no ego to demand - there is no demand, there is no demander.

Time creates the ego. The ego does not exist in animals because they are not conscious of time.

The ego does not exist in children because they are also not conscious of time. When you become conscious of time you become conscious of many things. First, the consciousness of time creates the fear of death. You immediately become conscious of death.

Time and death, they are not separate at all. The moment you become alert about time you become alert about death because time is running out fast, death is coming, death is there and you have to do something before death grabs you. Then fear, anxiety....

In that fear and anxiety, in that impatience, you can go on searching but you will not find. It is not that you have to find God, it is that you have to allow him to find you. So you have to be in a receptive mood, in a non-desiring, non-demanding mood, utterly at ease, as if it has already happened. There is no need for it to happen, it is as if it has already happened. With this silence, this peace, with this non-tense state, it happens.”
― Osho

“So often in our earliest iterations of faith, we might categorize God as angry in the Old Testament and gracious in the New Testament. We can often drift toward binary terms, black and white, good or bad, angry or kind. But the more time we spend in God’s presence and understand His Word, a fuller, more robust picture emerges, and from faith to faith we go.”
― Amy Seiffert, Your Name Is Daughter: What the Unsung Women of the Bible Teach Us about Our Worth

“There is no Grace where there is no fear of God.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Healing happens through the whole. Healing happens through God. Healing is pure love, which comes from the silence within us. Healing does not happen through us. Healing comes from the beyond. When a wound heals it is not you who is healing it. It heals by some mysterious energy. That mysterious energy is called God. It is only a name for all that is mysterious. It is a name for all that which is not comprehensible to reason.
How an illness disappears and health comes back is a miracle. Even medical science accept the fact that we can help the healing
process, but we cannot heal. We can help the healing process by removing the barriers to the healing process. We can prepare the
ground for the healing energy to function, but the healing energy does everything on its own.
Joy is the ultimate consequence of healing when you have been healed. Then there is no more wound. Then your being is full of wellbeing. It happens through God, through the whole.
The function for you is to remove all hindrance for the healing to happen. The work of a meditator is not to create barriers for the healing energy. That is all we can do: we can remove all hindrances for the healing process.
When I pursued an advanced training in spiritual healing in USA 1984, was told that I had the capacity to become a seventh chakra healer, a spiritual healer, to act as a catalyst and channel for spiritual energy from the seventh chakra through the heart. The last 30 years has meant to develop and deepen this capacity to an instrument of subtle catalytic
effect.
We can open up to existence. We can become available to all the energies that are showering on us - and then the healing happens on its own. It is always God that heals. And joy is the experience when you are healed, when nothing is missing, and you have come home.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, The Way of the Heart

“That's my disgrace. The body is shaking. I needn't let it shake the god within me. Have i not already carried this body too long if it makes such a fool of me at the end?”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“God hates me,” I groaned to Sandy at lunch later that day. [...] “It’s like he got bored and thought, ‘Hmmmm. I don’t want to mess with Africa today, and I don’t want to send Hurricane Ebonica to wipe out Florida, so I’ll just fuck with Paul.”
― T.J. Klune, Tell Me It's Real

“Question : OSHO, WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO FORGIVE, TO STOP CLINGING TO HURTS LONG SINCE PAST?

Osho : The ego exists on misery - the more misery the more nourishment for it. In blissful moments the ego totally disappears, and vice versa: if the ego disappears, bliss starts showering on you.

Joy is like poison to the ego, and misery is like vitamins.

You will have to understand the whole mechanism of the ego. If you try to forgive, that is not real forgiveness. With effort, you will only repress. You can forgive only when you understand the stupidity of the whole game that goes on within your mind.

You will repress in one form; it will assert in another form - sometimes so subtle that it is almost impossible to recognize it, that it is the same old structure, so renovated, refurnished, redecorated, that it looks almost new.

The ego lives on the negative, because the ego is basically a negative phenomenon; it exists on saying no. No is the soul of the ego. And how can you say no to bliss? You can say no to misery, you can say no to the agony of life. How can you say no to the flowers and the stars and the sunsets and all that is beautiful, divine? And the whole existence is full of it - it is full of roses - but you go on picking the thorns; you have a great investment in those thorns.

The first thing to remember is: ego is the most negative phenomenon in existence. It is like darkness.

Darkness has no positive existence; it is simply absence of light...that's why you cannot do anything directly with darkness.

If you try to fight with it, you will be defeated. Darkness cannot be defeated by fighting. It is impossible, for the simple reason that darkness does not exist. If you want to do anything with darkness you will have to go via light. If you don't want darkness, bring light in. If you want darkness, then put the light off. But do something with light; nothing can be done with darkness directly.

I don't say to you: Don't hate; love. I don't say to you that drop all your sins and become virtuous. I say: Bring light into your being. Don't be bothered by all these fragments of darkness.

And at the very center of darkness is ego. Ego is the center of darkness. You bring light - the method is meditation - you become more aware, you become more alert. Otherwise you will go on repressing, and whatsoever is repressed has to be repressed again and again and again.

That I have to do; that's the function of the Master, to destroy your ego. And you can become very revengeful, and you can carry deep wounds through it.

People go on carrying things that they hate. They live in their hatred. They go on fingering their wounds so they don't heal; they don't ALLOW them to heal - their whole life depends on their past.

Unless you start living in the present, you will not be able to forget and forgive the past.

I don't say to you: Forget and forgive all that has happened in the past; that is not my approach. I say: Live in the present that is the positive way to approach existence. Live in the present. That is another way of saying: Be more meditative, more aware, more alert, because when you are alert, aware, you are in the present.

Awareness cannot be in the past and cannot be in the future. Awareness knows only the present.

Awareness knows no past, no future; it has only one tense, the present. Be aware, and as you will start enjoying the present more and more, as you will feel the bliss of being in the present..You will stop going into the past. You will not have to forget and forgive, it will simply disappear on its own accord. You will be surprised - where it has gone?

To be free from past and future is to taste freedom for the first time, is to taste God. And in that experience one becomes whole, healthy; all wounds are healed. Suddenly there are no more any wounds; you start feeling a deep well-being arising in you. That well-being is the beginning of transformation.”
― Osho

“Hints aren't clarity. They speak in half-light and half-truth. If the message needs decoding, then it wasn't sent by God. These are considered spiritual breadcrumbs when manna was promised. Be mindful, clarity doesn't tiptoe. Clarity is brave, bold, and knows what it wants. So, if you're not clear, it's not clarity.”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood

“You are not denied, just divinely timed. What God scripted for your hands cannot be canceled by what tried to crush your heart. It’s not lost—it’s locating you. Even your missteps are being rerouted by mercy. Grace isn’t checking your credentials—it’s honoring your calling. Every flaw is just fuel for favor.”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood

“Love makes man an ocean. It gives man a kind of unboundedness, an infinity. It helps you to know that you are not defined by any limits. It helps you to know that you are not confined by the body or the mind. It helps you to now that you are not confined at all.
It helps you to know that you are as vast as the open sky. It helps you know that even the sky is not the limit. There is no limit to you. That is the beauty of love.
Love makes you aware of vastness. That is the first experience of godliness. And if the first experience happens, then other things follow in their own time. The first experience triggers a process. then everything follows and then you have not to do anything else.
Just one thing you have to do, which is to start with love. Love as much as you can. Love as many people as possible. Love not only people, but trees, animals, birds, rocks, rivers and stars.
Love means to become loving. Be love, so whatsoever you do should have the quality and flavor of love. Whatsoever you say you should say with love. Do not be rude to anybody or anything, because God permeated everything.
Be love and you will know what meditation is. Meditation is an experience of love, and love brings you to the ocean, to the unbounded, to the vast. It will open the door of the temple of love. Only this door will open the door to the real temple where you will find the real God.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, The Way of the Heart

“Truth is only one. Truth is neither mine nor yours. Truth does has not belong to anybody. Truth does not belong to any religion, to any ideology, to any church, to any country or to any time. Truth is eternal. 
Truth is the very centre of the whole existence. It is also our being, our life centre, and everyone's being. We are different on the surface, on the circumference, but we are joined at the centre. As we start moving  towards our innermost being, towards our center, we start moving towards oneness of being. 
On our journey towards oneness of being, first our personality is lost. The personality is a very peripheral thing, a very cultivated and conditioned. It is something imposed from theoutside. And when the personality  disappears, individuality appears. Individuality remains for the whole journey between the surface and the inner being, the centre. Then when you enter the centre even individuality disappears, and you become universal. It is to attain the ultimate truth. 
A man who has reached to truth lives only to liberate people. His whole life is nothing but a sharing of his joy. He has nothing else to live for. All his desires and ambitions have disappeared. He has no motivation of his own. As long as he lives he lives and breathes for all. He lives for all. 
He has reached the ultimate height of love, silence, truth and freedom. He has inherited the whole existence. This is possible for those who really want to know the ultimate truth. It is possible for anyone, who are ready to go on a journey to risk his personality, to attain individuality, and then to risk even individuality to attain universality.  ”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, The Way of the Heart

“Meditation brings all that is valuable in life.  Meditation brings love, silence, joy, truth and freedom. It makes your being full of songs. 
Meditation makes the meditator take life playfully. If you succeed in life, good. If you fail in life, good. One remains undisturbed in love and aloneness, in sadness and and joy, in success andfailure and in life and death. 
Life comes and goes and the meditator remains unaffected. Even death is just a drama. Just as the meditator enjoys life, he also enjoys death. 
Meditation is the greatest miracle there is. It is the greatest gift than God has given to humanity. ”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, The Way of the Heart

“Even when the ground feels shaky, what God is building in you can’t be undone. You’re held, you’re hidden, and soon… you’ll be revealed.”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood

“Meditation is the only way to know the deathless within ourselves. The body dies, but not you. The body is born, but you are not. You have been before birth, and you will be there after death. Life is not just an episode between birth and death. 
There are many births and many deaths in a long eternity of lives. Birth and death are just small events. They are like waves in a river which come and go, but the river remains. The river goes on and on. 
Unless this becomes your experience, one cannot live joyously,because the fear of death contaminates everything. The fear of death is the basic fear behind all fears. We may not be conscious of the fear of death, but it is always there. There are two basic taboos in the world: sex and death. We don't talk about sex, because sex is bound to bring up the question of death. We do not talk about death, because tha tbrings up fear.
Meditation is the only way to face death. Meditation means becoming aware of your being. Then you can see clearly that you are not the body and you are not the mind. You become a witness to the body and the mind. As this becomes your deeper experience, a freedom arises in you. 
Remaining unidentified with the body and the mind, one becomes aware of eternity, of deathlessness. This awareness makes your whole like take a totally different perspective, a different vision. Then even death takes a totally new perspective. You will be able to see in death that the body is dropping, and that the body is dropping from you. 
The greatest experience in life is to see death clearly with awareness .It is the greatest experience, because one who can see death happening with awareness is never born in the body again.  Then he becomes part of the eternal flow of consciousness. He becomes part of the universal consciousness. He becomes part of God. 
Unless this experience happens you will have to come back again and again into the body. Life in the body is just like a school. If you  fail, you will have to come back. If you pass, then there is no need to come back. Everyone has the potential to pass, so go into meditation and make this your goal.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, The Way of the Heart

“The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good.”
― André Gide

“Even coffee knows it needs a little heat to get strong — so don’t panic in the pressure.”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood

“The world teaches you to be logical, but logic destroys your love, which is far more valuable because it is through love that you will know God. It is through the heart that there is a possibility to know the beauty of existence.
We have been brought up in a very alculating way. We are being made to be clever and cunning, because that is what succeeds in the world. That is what helps you to achieve ambitions. You are brought up in a way, so that you can go on ego trips, on power trips, but reality is not an ego trip. To be in contact with reality, one has to put aside the ego and all the cunning and calculating ways.
One has to learn to be more in contact with the heart, with the aesthetic sense, and to be more in tune with existence. You have to be more in a love affair with life. You should be more open to the wind, to the sun and to the rain. You should be more full of wonder, than logic and knowledge. Each moment should be a moment of awe, of wonder.
Looking at life with eyes of the heart, the whole world becomes full for God. If your heart is hard, cunning and calculative,
God disappears from the world. God dies. Then you live in a godless world. Living in a godless world is not worth living at all. Life loses all beauty and become absolutely mundane. Padma, my beloved friend for many lives, said once: "What would be the reason to live if there would be no spirituality?"
The meditator have to live a life of grace, a beautiful life, a life of love, silence, joy, truth, freedom and creativity. Then you will become open to God.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, The Way of the Heart

“..our trip is only a means to an end; the adventure lies in the sail through the ocean of the spirit, to find a sea (see) way to God. No fear must I have. I must sail into the unknown, and as crew I have lawbreakers, criminals--my passions, lusts, lies, laziness, and many other handicaps; but one power I have also, a heart full of warm love, love for men, for the world, for beauty, purity, truth, which we call God. Thus it is; and so let come what will. And now may the bird of my longing spread its wings to a flight across the big ocean.....”
― George Dibbern, Quest

“You weren’t crazy. You were discerning. God is exposing the man who thought deception was a game and your heart was a toy.”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood

“God is pulling the curtain on counterfeit love. The stage of deception is collapsing, and truth is taking center.”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood

“God has a vault with your name on it —labeled ‘Stored Prayers’—and every tear, and every petition, is a key. When you seek Him without an agenda, you unlock floodgates designed just for you. The prayers you thought vanished were actually planted. He was crafting a breakthrough that could only be born through your persistence.”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood

“Every room doesn’t deserve your spirit. Some smiles carry daggers in disguise, but grace scans what the natural eyes can’t. Be wise with your circle—God’s presence is your protection, not popularity.”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood

“God didn’t bring you this far just to have you lose your Wi-Fi signal now — stay connected”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood

“Favor will find you even if your GPS is rerouting — God don’t miss.”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood

“You can’t throw shade on someone lit by the Holy Spirit — we glow in the dark, too”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood