Dag Hammarskjöld: Quotes about God

Dag Hammarskjöld was Swedish diplomat, economist, and author. Explore interesting quotes on god.

Dag Hammarskjöld: 116 quotes 5 likes

“In the faith which is "God's marriage to the soul", you are one in God, and God is wholly in you, just as, for you, He is wholly in all you meet.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Markings (1964)
Context: In the faith which is "God's marriage to the soul", you are one in God, and God is wholly in you, just as, for you, He is wholly in all you meet. With this faith, in prayer you descend into yourself to meet the other.

God , Marriage , Faith , Soul

“God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Markings (1964)

God , Personality

“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Markings (1964)

God , Animals

“To love life and men as God loves them —
for the sake of
their infinite possibilities,
to wait like Him,
to judge like Him,
without passing judgment,
to obey the order when it is given
and never look back.”

Dag Hammarskjöld

Markings (1964)

Love , Life , Men , God