“The nearer you come to God, the less you are disposed to questioning and reasoning. When you actually attain Him, when you behold Him as the reality, then all noise, all disputations, come to an end.”

“Don't let your prayers turn into a wish list for Santa Claus. Worship God and praise him when you come to him in prayer.”

Bill Hybels (1951) American writer

“If there is a God and you believe in him, you know the best is yet to come.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

“If it's sad / you know it's true / God is glad on bluer moons / When your room is all you do / it comes to you”

Blake Schwarzenbach (1967) American singer

“If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.”

Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher

“When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.”

Stephenie Meyer (1973) American author

“When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

“When you come to the place where you can’t do anything else, you must stand still and believe… When you can’t do anything, let God do it all.”

James MacDonald (1960) American pastor

“So you must be silent.
Then God will be born in you,
utter his word in you and you shall hear it;
but be very sure that if
you speak the word will have to be silent.
If you go out, he will most surely come in;
as much as you go out for him
He will come in to you; no more, no less….”

Johannes Tauler (1300–1361) German theologian

“God is not running the world. (…) All happens by itself. You are asking the question and you are supplying the answer. And you know the answer when you ask the question. All is play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. (…)”

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru