The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.
-Annie Dillard
"Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters"
Quotations
God
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
-Jim Elliot
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.
-Ravi Zacharias
"Has Christianity Failed You?"
God does not test you because he knows you completely - your past, present and future.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you know you own God you will not be in a hurry to get something out of God.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
God loveth those who are pure. No one is more loved than one of purity and immaculate cleanliness.
-A Spiritual Leader "The Báb"
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments; they are like part of God.
-Pandit Ravi Shankar "Pandit Ravi Shankar"
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
-Anne Rice
"Interview with the Vampire"
I have found God, but he is insufficient.
-Henry Miller
"Tropic of Cancer"
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
-Saint Francis of Assisi "St. Francis of Assisi"
