Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.
Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.
The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.
Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.
When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.
We only have victory over satan when we walk in the Spirit in Christ Jesus.
See your weakness as a reason to pray the more, it should not be the reason for sadness or to abandon your post.
When a person is resolute [determined, sold out, dedicated, single-minded] in his faith and recognizes God's Presence everywhere, he is protected from all sides.
Jesus is not a figure from the past: He continues now and always to light the way for us.
The Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of the Divine Will; sets the Kingdom of God within us; gives us pure lips, and a pure heart with which to glorify his holy name
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines our highest moral and spiritual intuitions and inclinations. Yet, building that society can never be divided from the daily practices through which we live out our ethical and spiritual lives, both in the way we treat others around us, and in the way we nourish the God within us.
There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.
God within us is communicating with God above us, and we know that this communication is pure and powerful.
Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It's kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide to accept what he calls the confrontation between their souls. It's like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.
To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.
There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.
I don't believe in God. I believe gods and devils are within us. It's our own battle. Our life's battle is to appeal to the gods within us, and to fight the devils within us.
The only initiation which I advocate and which I look for with all the ardor of my Soul, is that by which we are able to enter into the Heart of God within us, and there make an Indissoluble Marriage, which makes us the Friend and Spouse of the Repairer … there is no other way to arrive at this Holy Initiation than for us to delve more and more into the depth of our Soul and to not let go of the prize until we have succeeded in liberating its lively and vivifying origin.
There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]
Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from the earth, and things on the earth, will be ministers of God to do us good. Only let there be God within us, and then every thing outside us will become a godlike help.
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