Quotes about god
god quality decay
God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay. Rabindranath Tagore
god men giving
Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him. Rabindranath Tagore
god mean self
Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth) where it recognizes its essence in the universal and infinite, in the Supreme Self, in paramatman (God). This is what Christ means when he says, "Before Abraham was, I am" (i.e. before Abraham was God, who is the same that is in my soul - I am That.) Rabindranath Tagore
god journey self
Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a Soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. Rabindranath Tagore
god lying son
The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God, the Supreme Soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth. Rabindranath Tagore
god giving able
I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him. Rabindranath Tagore
god running children
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. Rabindranath Tagore
god flower men
God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands. Rabindranath Tagore
god real ignorance
True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth. Rabindranath Tagore
god essence joy
Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms. Rabindranath Tagore
god hope children
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. Rabindranath Tagore
god telling-the-truth realizing
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. Ramakrishna
god night thinking
If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God. Ramakrishna
god book learning
Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God. Ramakrishna
god mad world
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God. Ramakrishna
god should love-everyone
You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings. Ramakrishna
god self guru
Guru, God and Self are One Ramana Maharshi
god spiritual real
In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god heart deeds
Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god men may
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god party two
In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god religious believe
I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god veils dare
Dare to love God without mediator or veil. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god heart men
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god sweet men
The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god power ends
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god brother believe
Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god book simple
Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god sun pool
As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god men holy-days
The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god mean years
The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god believe heart
Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god running dream
The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle. Ralph Waldo Emerson