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God Quotes by Thomas Keating
- God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
- St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction…
- God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life…
- Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.
- The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to…
- The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.
- The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a…
- You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that…
- Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.
- God is a tremendous supporter of creation, especially of all living beings.
- We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of…
- Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs…
- One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving…
More God Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- To whom God will, there be the victory. — William Shakespeare
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures… — Benjamin Carson
- Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has… — Michele Bachmann
- If there is a God, he is a malign thug. — Mark Twain