God Within Us Quotes:

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

- Teresa of Avila

topic: Spirit, Spirituality, God Within Us

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Insecure, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

topic: Real, Knowing, Heaven, God Within Us

God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.

- Ramana Maharshi

topic: Mean, Shining, Mind, God Within Us, Merging

Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean

- Ted Dekker

source: FaceBook post by Ted Dekker from Jun 22, 2012

topic: Ocean, Swimming, Realizing, Spiritual Awakening, God Within Us

The Kingdom of God is Within You.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (2013). “The Non-Fiction of Leo Tolstoy: (Includes A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, A Letter to a Hindu, Youth, Tolstoy on Shakespeare, What to Do)”, p.138, Golgotha Press

topic: Jesus, Christ Consciousness, Gnosis, Kingdom Of Heaven, Chariots

I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Children, Grandmother, Adults, Child Of God, Mighty God

The Lord is knocking at the door of our hearts. Have we put a sign on the door saying: 'Do not disturb'?

- Pope Francis

topic: Heart, Doors, Lord, Connecting With God, Servant Of God

If you decide on your direction, God will give you the energy for the distance.

- T. B. Joshua

topic: Distance, Giving, Energy, God Within Us

The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Prayer, Purpose, Presence Of God, Intimacy With God, Connecting With God

Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.

- David Platt

source: Twitter post from Feb 13, 2013

topic: Encouraging, Faith, God, Instruments Of God, Commitment To God

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.289, Library of America

topic: God, Moss, Doctrine, Cobwebs, God Within Us

God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.

- Kirk Franklin

source: Twitter post from Apr 22, 2012

topic: Rocks, May, Shows, Instruments Of God, Confidence In God

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

- Pope Francis

topic: Children, Mean, Talking, Talking To God, Communion With God

The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

- Max Lucado

source: Richard Carlson (1998). “The Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Workbook: Exercises, Questions, and Self-Tests to Help You Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life”, Hyperion

topic: Inspirational, God, Dark, Dark Alleys, Keep The Faith

Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

- Saint Patrick

source: Saint Patrick, Charles Henry Hamilton Wright (1885*). “The Writings of Patrick: The Apostle of Ireland. A Revised Translation with Notes Critical and Historical”

topic: Heart, Winning, Mouths, Restoring, Connecting With God

We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Inspirational, God, Keep Believing, Cassius Clay

God...doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life. Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life itself.

- Miles J. Stanford

topic: Christian, Jesus, Maturity, God Help Me, Spiritual Maturity

If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.

- Charles Spurgeon

source: Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.133, Barbour Publishing

topic: Jesus Love, Intimacy With God, Servant Of God, God Within Us

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

- Saint Augustine

topic: God, Faith, Falling In Love, Seeking God, Lifetime Achievement

If you prayed as much as you worry, you'd have nothing to worry about.

- Rick Warren

topic: Worry, Confidence In God, God Is In Control, Commitment To God, Connecting With God

If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them. Let us open wide our hearts. It is joy which invites us. Press forward and fear nothing.

- Katharine Drexel

topic: Heart, Joy, Catholic, Fear None, Spiritual Joy

If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

- Scott Hahn

source: Scott Hahn (2009). “Signs of Life: 40 Catholic Customs and Their Biblical Roots”, p.91, Image

topic: Spiritual, Prayer, Memories, Confidence In God, Commitment To God

God is bigger than time, dates, and appointments. He wants you to move through this day with a quiet heart, an inward assurance that He is in control, a peaceful certainty that your life is in His hands, a deep trust in His plan and purposes, and a thankful disposition, toward all that He allows. He wants you to put your faith in Him, not in a timetable. He wants you to wait on Him and wait for Him. In His perfect way He will put everything together, see to every detail... arrange every circumstance... and order every step to bring to pass what He has for you.

- Roy Lessin

topic: Life, Trust, God, Instruments Of God, Thank You God

God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Powerful, Grace, Resistance, Grace And Mercy, God Within Us

When the Spirit of God comes into us, He wants to be Himself in us. He wants His energy to be poured through us. He wants His wisdom to be deposited in our hearts. He wants His instinct and nature to be evident and obvious in you.He wants us to see what He is looking at, to feel what He feels, to know what He knows, to work with His projects, see life the way He sees it, get His ideas and know His opinion about yourself and others.

- T. B. Joshua

topic: Heart, Ideas, Energy, Connecting With God, God Within Us

God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere.

- Thea Bowman

source: Source: www.beliefnet.com

topic: Sister, God, Religious, God Within Us

The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life.

- Shoghi Effendi

topic: Spiritual, Men, Law, Commitment To God, God Within Us

There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information.

- Joel Osteen

topic: God, Christian, Religious, Mighty God, Instruments Of God

You are a mirror of the Almighty...this is the reason you were created...your purpose.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: God, Faith, Christian, God Within Us

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Blessing, Trials, Way, Instruments Of God, God Is In Control

No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.

- Joyce Meyer

source: Twitter post from Apr 7, 2012

topic: God, Faith, Christian, God Help Me, Mighty God

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Christian, Prayer, Answers, Mighty God, Commitment To God

God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.

- Max Lucado

topic: Life Changing, Hands, Kind, Instruments Of God, God Has A Plan

Broken I run to you for your arms are open wide. I am weary but I know your touch restores my life.

- Kathryn Scott

source: Song: Hungry, 2003

topic: Christian, Running, Broken, God Help Me, Confidence In God

Nothing done with the focus on God is ever a waste of time.

- Lysa TerKeurst

source: Twitter post from Dec 24, 2015

topic: Focus, Done, Waste, Focus On God, God Within Us

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

- Timothy Keller

source: Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.16, Penguin

topic: Fire, Suffering, Walks, Commitment To God, Walking With God

When you suffer, don't speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don't stop.

- Yasmin Mogahed

topic: Pain, Inspire, Suffering, Islamic Wisdom, Favor Of God

The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.

- Max Lucado

topic: Self, Kansas, Heaven, Choose Wisely, Instruments Of God

We shouldn't pray for a lighter load to carry but a stronger back to endure! Then the world will see that God is with us, empowering us to live in a way that reflects his love and power.

- Brother Yun

source: Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2002). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.229, Monarch Books

topic: Empowering, Stronger, World, Reflecting, Communion With God

If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Mean, World, Lord, God Is In Control, Lordship

The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.

- Reinhard Bonnke

source: Reinhard Bonnke (2017). “Holy Spirit Are We Flammable or Fireproof?”, p.37, CFAN Publications

topic: Coffee, Cake, Church, Intimacy With God, God Within Us

The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in heart can see the King. While we think of the world, it is only the world for us; but let us come to it with the feeling that the world is God, and we shall have God.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

topic: Kings, Heart, Thinking, God Within Us

There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is--that is the rest of victory!

- Alan Redpath

topic: Heart, Eye, Blessing, God Is In Control, Commitment To God

You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His abode is, there is only one place to look for Him: in the heart of a true lover.

- Shams Tabrizi

topic: Heart, Knowing, Church, God Within Us, True Lovers

When we come to Christ, we’re no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus.

- Billy Graham

topic: Jesus, Goal, Important, Most Important Person, Commitment To God

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: God, Christian Inspirational, Confidence In God, God Is In Control, God's Will

When you come in contact with the anointing of God, it not only affects your moment, it affects your tomorrow.

- Creflo A. Dollar

source: Creflo A. Dollar (1992). “Understanding God's Purpose for the Anointing”, Creflo Dollar Ministries

topic: Anointing, Tomorrow, Moments, Intimacy With God, Communion With God

What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Heart, Closest, Ifs, Intimacy With God, Commitment To God

Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Prayer, Men, Doe, Lovingkindness, God Answers Prayers

Without worship, we go about miserable.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: God, Faith, Christian, Connecting With God, Servant Of God