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title: "28 God Experience Quotes by 25 authors"
description: "Browse 28 God Experience quotes by 25 authors. Discover the best God Experience sayings and thoughts."
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> [“I thank God for every experience.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lailah-gifty-akita/i-thank-god-for-every-experience/)

[Lailah Gifty Akita](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lailah-gifty-akita/)

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> [God is an experience of supreme love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/god-is-an-experience-of-supreme-love/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [God has the experience that comes from billions of years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-cook/god-has-the-experience-that-comes-from-billions-of-years/)

[James Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-cook/)

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> [God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/god-is-the-experience-of-looking-at-a-tree-and-saying-ah/)

[Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/)

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> [I remember when I first met God. An experience that no words can express. Better than any other thing I tried out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-remember-when-i-first-met-god-an-experience-that-no-words-can/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Without being rooted and grounded in the love of God, we cannot experience the fullness of God in our lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/senora-roy/without-being-rooted-and-grounded-in-the-love-of-god-we-cannot/)

[Senora Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/senora-roy/)

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> [When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meister-eckhart/when-i-experience-love-i-must-go-to-god-when-i-experience-non/)

[Meister Eckhart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meister-eckhart/)

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> [Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/nature-has-created-us-with-the-capacity-to-know-god-to-experience-god/)

[Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/526/alice-walker-347_capacity_nature-has-created-us-with-the-capacity_1638930.png)

> [God put us here to experience the beauty of his creation(s). Do not take it for granted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/enhance-dreams/god-put-us-here-to-experience-the-beauty-of-his-creation-s-do-not/)

[Enhance Dreams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/enhance-dreams/)

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> [If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-ward-beecher/if-christ-is-the-wisdom-of-god-and-the-power-of-god-in-the-experience/)

[Henry Ward Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-ward-beecher/)

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> [To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/to-complain-that-man-measures-god-by-his-own-experience-is-a-waste-of/)

[Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/)

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> [Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kaufmann/those-who-believe-in-god-because-their-experience-of-life-and-the/)

[Walter Kaufmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kaufmann/)

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> [I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-shelby-spong/i-believe-that-is-what-the-god-experience-does-for-us-it-calls-us/)

[John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-shelby-spong/)

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> [I think I can tell you how I experience God. I experience God as the power of life calling me to live,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-shelby-spong/i-think-i-can-tell-you-how-i-experience-god-i-experience-god-as-the/)

[John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-shelby-spong/)

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> [The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther/the-heart-overflows-with-gladness-and-leaps-and-dances-for-the-joy-it/)

[Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther/)

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> [I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-johnson/i-cannot-live-in-mediocrity-content-with-merely-knowing-that-there-is/)

[Bill Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-johnson/)

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> [The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-nouwen/the-life-converting-experience-is-not-the-discovery-that-i-have/)

[Henri Nouwen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-nouwen/)

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> [Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rohr/our-culture-is-almost-entirely-prepared-to-not-just-help-you-create/)

[Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rohr/)

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> [“I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-have-always-responded-with-breathless-excitement-to-anyone-who-has/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [Once you have surrendered completely to God, you experience for the first time absolute freedom from the worries, problems and ills of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashok-kushwaha/once-you-have-surrendered-completely-to-god-you-experience-for-the/)

[Ashok Kushwaha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashok-kushwaha/)

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> [My understanding of God is an experience. God is. That's all I know. In the Biblical tradition, it would be expressed as,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-lesser/my-understanding-of-god-is-an-experience-god-is-that-s-all-i-know-in/)

[Elizabeth Lesser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-lesser/)

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> [God is not a person; God is manifestation itself. We think that God is a superhuman person, but God is not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ricky-ray/god-is-not-a-person-god-is-manifestation-itself-we-think-that-god-is/)

[Ricky Ray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ricky-ray/)

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> [The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/the-best-thing-is-to-go-from-nature-s-god-dawn-to-nature-and-if-you/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

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> [“I do not believe that I am an atheist. Let me tell you of an experience I had. I was nineteen years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-f-walter/i-do-not-believe-that-i-am-an-atheist-let-me-tell-you-of-an/)

[Otto F. Walter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-f-walter/)

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> [“There are those who don’t believe in God and yet do good. There are those who believe in God and kill for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-krishnamurti/there-are-those-who-don-t-believe-in-god-and-yet-do-good-there-are/)

[J. Krishnamurti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-krishnamurti/)

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> [“We Are All a Part of God "Recently I was sitting in an airport lounge full of people waiting to board a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/llewellyn-vaughan-lee/we-are-all-a-part-of-god-recently-i-was-sitting-in-an-airport-lounge/)

[Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/llewellyn-vaughan-lee/)

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> [“The Sunday service alone seldom leads people on deeper or even real journeys; we must begin to be honest about this. All…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rohr/the-sunday-service-alone-seldom-leads-people-on-deeper-or-even-real/)

[Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rohr/)

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> [“Would it be so strange to think that upon death, when there is no newly created consciousness in the continuation of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marjorie-hewitt-suchocki/would-it-be-so-strange-to-think-that-upon-death-when-there-is-no/)

[Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marjorie-hewitt-suchocki/)

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                        "text": "Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it and attached to it. So, without some form of God experience, which teaches you who you are apart from that - we would say in the religious world, who you are \"in\" God, in the mind and heart of God - there's almost no way to get out of it.",
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                        "text": "“I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed - much closer than we imagine, breathing right through our own hearts. I respond with gratitude to anyone who has ever voyaged to the center of that heart, and who has then returned to the world with a report for the rest of us that God is an experience of supreme love.”",
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                        "text": "Once you have surrendered completely to God, you experience for the first time absolute freedom from the worries, problems and ills of this world. You can be happy and even laugh in apparent adversity. Whatever is happening is a game, God's game and you play your part and enjoy it.",
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                        "text": "God is not a person; God is manifestation itself. We think that God is a superhuman person, but God is not a person. He is not a subject. We can never experience God in a subject/object experience. God is what makes a subject/object experience possible. We can never see God or experience God as separate from ourselves. God is a being but there is no division.",
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                        "text": "The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience.",
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                        "text": "“I do not believe that I am an atheist. Let me tell you of an experience I had. I was nineteen years old at the time, I guess. I was traveling by train to Lucerne; it was afternoon, the light and moving shadows were signaling a thunderstorm, sun and shadow played on the fields. I was alone in the car, I opened the window and just stared in amazement at this landscape. I was completely overcome and could have shouted for joy. I wept and had the feeling: This is God. That is what lives and what ought to he. It was an image of peace and of harmony of everything with everything. I had the feeling that I was part of it; I felt the rhythmic movements of recurrence in their infinite multiformity within me. It was a mystical, a kind of pantheistic experience, that is, the experience of God in nature. When I am asked to speak on the level of theory about religion and God, it is that experience that rises up unforgettably before my eyes. It has prevented me from intellectually coming to the point where nothing is left of God. Mystics have called such an experience of the divine \"the little spark.”",
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                        "text": "“There are those who don’t believe in God and yet do good. There are those who believe in God and kill for that belief; those who prepare for war because they claim they want peace, and so on. So one has to ask oneself what need there is to believe at all in anything, though this doesn’t deny the extraordinary mystery of life. But belief is a word, a thought, and this is not the thing, anymore than your name is actually you. Through experience you hope to touch the truth of your belief, to prove it to yourself, but this belief conditions your experience. It isn’t that the experience comes to prove the belief, but rather that the belief begets the experience. Your belief in God will give you the experience of what you call God. You will always experience what you believe and nothing else.”",
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                        "text": "“We Are All a Part of God \"Recently I was sitting in an airport lounge full of people waiting to board a flight. For a few moments my eyes were opened, and I saw how each person was full of His presence, how there was nothing other than He, His light, His love, His beauty. And in the same few moments I also saw that these people did not know it. In this experience I realized that the real mystery is not that we are all divine, are filled with His substance, but that we do not know it. We do not know that we are a part of God. This experience filled me with wonder, the wonder that part of the mystery of creation is that we have been allowed to forget Him. It is His will that in us He forgets Himself, just as it is His will that He allows us to remember Him.\" — The Circle of Love”",
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                        "text": "“The Sunday service alone seldom leads people on deeper or even real journeys; we must begin to be honest about this. All that organized religion can do is to hold you inside the boxing ring long enough so you can begin to ask good questions and expect bigger answers. But it seldom teaches you how to really box with the mystery itself. Organized religion does not tend to cook you! It just keeps you on a low, half-cold simmer. It doesn’t teach you how to expect the mystery to show itself at any profound level. It tends, and I don’t mean to be unkind, to make you codependent upon its own ministry, instead of leading you to know something for yourself, which is really the whole point. It’s like we keep saying, “keep coming back, keep coming back” and you’ll eventually get it. But you don’t because the whole thing is oriented toward something you attend or watch and not to something you can participate in 24/7, even without the ministrations of priest and ministers and formal sacraments. Again, I mean no disrespect. If God-experience depends on formal sacramental ministry from ordained clergy, than 99.9 percent of creation has had no chance to know or love God. That can’t be true. And if the clergy themselves have not gone on a further journey, they don’t know how to send you there or guide you there because they have not gone there themselves yet (see Matthew 23:13). Nemo dat quod not hat, we said in Latin: “You cannot give away what you do not have yourself.”",
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                        "text": "“Would it be so strange to think that upon death, when there is no newly created consciousness in the continuation of our histories, we might experience ourselves in God as participants in God's own life? And if such could happen, would it not be the case that as God experiences the continuing events of the world, we who are held in the life of God would also experience the continuing stories of earth?”",
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