God is everywhere and everything is God (quotes)

God is everywhere

  • We find God everywhere. Rudolf Steiner
  • To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere. Cormac McCarthy
  • There is nothing but light. God is everywhere. Frederick Lenz
  • Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere. Yasunari Kawabata
  • God is everywhere and in everything forever. A Course in Miracles
  • People see God every day, they just don’t recognize him. Pearl Bailey
  • God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand. Caspar David Friedrich
  • One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere. Sri Aurobindo
  • Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his Throne. Charles Spurgeon
  • When a man turns his face to God he finds sunshine everywhere. Abdu’l-Bahá
  • Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well. John Greenleaf Whittier
  • There is no time, no place, no state where God is absent. A Course in Miracles
  • God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. Saint Francis de Sales
  • God is everywhere, in the very air I breathe, yes everywhere. Elizabeth Ann Seton
  • God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist. Mother Teresa
  • Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere and full of himself. Seneca the Younger
  • There is no one anywhere as available to everyone everywhere as is God. Eugenia Price
  • Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God. Karl Rahner
  • The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts. Carter Heyward
  • When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere. Sivananda
  • God is everywhere and God is an entity filled with grace, love, compassion and forgiveness. Jimmy Carter
  • Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each on. Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • If God ever actually exists, then God always and everywhere exists, because that is what God is. Keith Ward
  • God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so. Plotinus
  • When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.Jenny Offill
  • God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can’t come to visit you unless you aren’t there. Angelus Silesius
  • God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world! Caryll Houselander
  • The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. Gustave Flaubert
  • There’s actually no place where God stops and you start and no place where you stop and I start. Marianne Williamson
  • God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God. Ramakrishna
  • The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition. Oswald Chambers
  • We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. C. S. Lewis
  • So, you pay attention to what is in every moment. And when you do that, then you realize that the presence of God is everywhere. Deepak Chopra
  • A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, ‘Where is God’? The Christian answered, ‘Let me first ask you, Where is He not?’ Aaron Arrowsmith
  • He finally understood that God’s presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another. Nicholas Sparks
  • Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not. Adam Hamilton
  • Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened. Francis of Assisi
  • Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative. Rajneesh
  • My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself. Johannes Kepler
  • 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
  • Just like I believe God is everywhere, I believe that whether it’s nature, whether it’s sitting on a bike in spin class, that can be church, too, for me. Lisa Rinna
  • The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God. Harriet Martineau
  • This All is universal power, of infinite extent and infinite in potency, a god so great that all his parts are infinite. Name any place, and he is already there. Plotinus
  • The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you. C. Ryle
  • When a person is resolute [determined, sold out, dedicated, single-minded] in his faith and recognizes God’s Presence everywhere, he is protected from all sides. Gloria Copeland
  • Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere – in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals. Mother Teresa
  • In Hindu scripture it is called Kutastha Chaitanya or Tat, the cosmic intelligence of Spirit everywhere present in creation. It is the universal consciousness, oneness with God, Paramahansa Yogananda
  • The ‘kingdom of God’ is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come ‘in a thousand years’ it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere. Friedrich Nietzsche
  • I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere. Andrea Bocelli
  • Seeing a cat loving her kittens stand and pray. God has become manifest there; literally believe this. Repeat “I am Thine, I am Thine”, for we can see God everywhere. Do not seek for Him, just see Him. Swami Vivekananda
  • I am the light that is above them all, I am the All, The All came forth from Me and the All attained to me. Cleave a piece of wood and I am there; Lift up a stone and you will find me there. The Gospel According to Thomas
  • When it seems as if God is far away, remind yourself that He is near. Nearness is not a matter of geography. God is everywhere. Nearness is likeness. The more we become like the Lord, the nearer He is to us. Warren W. Wiersbe
  • The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere, when He comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun. Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present. Thomas Merton
  • God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion. Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • We must set a goal. Saints and sages say that the goal is to know God in ordinary life – not out of the ordinary – in thought, word and deed. God is Omnipotent so know Him everywhere and in everything. Where to start? Let us start with ourselves. Swami Shivapadananda
  • He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy–every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hidden from us, it is only because we have not yet learned to seek Him correctly. Chaim Potok
  • God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word. Jeremy Taylor
  • We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence. Charlotte Bronte
  • Everything is an avenue leading to the experience of Ultimate Reality. The divine communicates itself in all things. There are infinite ways to encounter the source. Ultimate Reality may be experienced in virtually anything. There is no place, no activity that restricts the divine. It is everywhere.  Wayne Teasdale
  • God is all-loving, all-knowing and everywhere, and we possess those qualities. We are actually extremely powerful beings, yet we seem to fear being powerful so we hold ourselves back. However, in truth, we are one with God and each other. The belief that we are separated from God and other people is just that: a belief. Doreen Virtue
  • The moment you have faith, there is the experience. The moment you have trust, there is realization, there is enlightenment. Then this world no longer exists as the world. The world exists as the Self. It exists as God. And then, with our physical eyes, we can see the light of God everywhere and in everything. Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
  • We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything – in people and in things and in nature and in events … The only thing is we don’t see it … I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere.  Thomas Merton
  • And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees. Khalil Gibran
  • God’s Providence controls the universe. It is present everywhere. Providence is the sovereign Logos of God, imprinting form on the unformed materiality of the world, making and fashioning all things. Matter could not have acquired an articulated structure were it not for the directing power of the Logos Who is the Image, Intellect, Wisdom, and Providence of God. Anthony the Great
  • No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated. Isaac Newton
  • Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can’t go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can’t do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road. William S. Burroughs
  • If someone were to ask me whether I believed in God, or saw God, or had a particular relationship with God, I would reply that I don’t separate God from my world in my thinking. I feel that God is everywhere. That’s why I never feel separated from God or feel I must seek God, any more than a fish in the ocean feels it must seek water. In a sense, God is the “ocean” in which we live. Robert Fulghum
  • Heaven—the kingdom of God—is everywhere. “But man doesn’t see it, ” lamented Jesus. We do not see it because we are so enamored of experience, of our melodramas, of our attempts to predict and control, to understand and manipulate everything rationally. In our efforts, we miss the simple thing—the simple truth that it is all God, which is the mystic’s way of saying that it is all consciousness. Amit Goswami
  • The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are. Mark Nepo
  • Being bodiless, God is nowhere, but as God He is everywhere. If there were a mountain, a place or any part of Creation where God was not, then He would be found to be in some way circumscribed. So He is everywhere and in everything. In what way is this so? Is He contained not by each part but by the whole? No, because then that would be a body. He embraces and encompasses everything, and is Himself everywhere and also above everything, worshipped by true worshippers in His Spirit and Truth. Gregory Palamas
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God is all that is…

  • It is within all this/It is outside all this. The Upanishads
  • This is all Brahman, all without the possibility of otherness. Chaudhuri
  • I am that which is highest. I am that which is lowest. I am that which is All. (God speaking to mother Julian of Norwich)
  • In God, absolute unity is absolute multiplicity, absolute identity is absolute diversity; absolute actuality is absolute potentiality. Nicolaus Cusanus
  • God is all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster’s Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It’s everything… God is everything. Iyanla Vanzant
  • In Hindu terms: All there is, is Brahman; Brahman is all there is. IT is absolute Oneness, magically disguised as multiplicity. This is the mystery; THIS is IT. Leo Hartong
  • This entire universe of which we speak and think is nothing but Brahman. Brahman dwells beyond the range of Maya [illusion]. There is nothing else. Vedanta literature of India
  • All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else. Swami Vivekananda
  • After he had created it, he entered into it; after he had entered into it, he was: The being and the beyond… Reality and unreality… The formed and the unformed, The mortal and immortal. The abiding and the fleeting. Upanishads
  • It is He alone who is born in this world. He lives as all beings; it is only Him everywhere…. He takes the form of the limited soul, appearing to be bound; but, in fact, He is forever free. He is the Power that creates the appearance of the world. Yet He remains unlimited and unaffected by these appearances. When one knows that Brahman, then that soul becomes free. The forms of the world change, like clouds in the sky; but Brahman, the Lord, remains One and unchanged… Through meditation on Him, and communion with Him, He becomes known… and one therefore becomes freed from illusion.  Svetasvatara Upanishad
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…the totality

  • You are a microcosm of Me – the Divine All, the Holy Everything, the Sum and Substance. .. the Alpha and the Omega. .. Yes, I am God, as you now understand Him. I am Goddess as you now comprehend Her, I am the Conceiver and the Creator of Everything you now know and experience, and you are My children. .. even as I am the child of another.  Neale Donald Walsch
  • God includes all that is, but God also transcends all that is. Carolyn Jane Bohler
  • God is all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster’s Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It’s everything… God is everything. Iyanla Vanzant
  • God is both manifest as the Totality and Allness of Creation and simultaneously unmanifest as the Godhead, the Infinite Potentiality and source or ‘void-ness’ prior to form. David R. Hawkins
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God is present throughout the earth

  • But will God in truth dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. Solomon
  • If heaven is understood more as God’s space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think.  Jon Meacham
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The world is full of God…

  • Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true. Thomas Merton
  • The eyes of my soul were opened, and I beheld the plenitude of God, whereby I did comprehend the whole world, both here and beyond the sea, and the abyss and all things else; and therein I beheld naught save the divine Power in a manner assuredly indescribable, so that through excess of marvelling the soul cried with a loud voice, saying: ‘This world is full of God!’ Wherefore did I now comprehend that the world is but a small thing; I saw moreover that the power of God was above all things, and that the whole world was full of it.  Rudolf Otto
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…and is made of God

  • God has created the world out of his own being. Johannes Scotus Eriugena
  • God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is. Giordano Bruno
  • God, therefore, is the one most simple essence of the entire universe. Nicholas of Cusa
  • Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  • The small waves and the big waves all arise from the same ocean. So, when we stand aside spiritually and view every person and every religion impersonally, we shall see that everything is made of God. Paramahansa Yogananda
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Everything is God

  • Everything is overflowing with Gods. Proclus
  • Source manifests as ‘all that is’ Leo Hartong
  • Everything is IT and you are THAT. Leo Hartong
  • God is either everything, or He is nothing. Bill W
  • The last story: God is everything, God is good. Byron Katie
  • For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. Byron Katie
  • If God is everything, what else could we possibily want? Tarek Saab
  • Everything is God, there is nothing else but God. – Mata Amritanandamayi
  • Nothing said or written can be IT and yet, everything is IT. Leo Hartongs
  • God is the existence of of all that is, and also the nothing from which all things arise. Tim Freke
  • According to my definition of God, I’m not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I’m looking at God. Pete Seeger
  • Everything is God. Everything is light. It is only when we live in illusions, when there are shadows in our mind that we are afraid. Frederick Lenz
  • Everything is Spirit – in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything. Paramahansa Yogananda
  • I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you’ve found It. Alice Walker
  • There is nothing that God is not. So when you ask me what God is for me, I find myself wanting to say: Everything. Everything that is, that ever was, that ever will be. Neale Donald Walsch
  • God’s wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything! Tony Robbins
  • I don’t think of God as an old white man… But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity. Pete Seeger
  • I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence. Giordano Bruno
  • 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
  • I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean. J. D. Salinger
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There’s nothing but God

  • Paradise is to see only God. Marguerite Porete
  • There is nothing (no-thing) outside of God. All Is One. Leo Hartong
  • There’s nothing in the universe that isn’t God. Neale Donald Walsch
  • Nothing exists except the One. That One is the supreme Brahman. Ramakrishna
  • The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world Ramana Maharshi
  • What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul, and God are appearances in it. Ramana Maharshi
  • What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal. Adi Shankara
  • There is nothing apart from Pure Awareness, this One Substance, this One Taste or this Single Source… no matter how it may appear to the mind. Leo Hartong
  • There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other. Ken Wilber
  • All the eyes of God are looking through all the stars, or looking at the stars through our eyes. There’s only the eye of God everywhere, seeing and being in perfection always. Frederick Lenz
  • The entire universe is truly the Self. There exists nothing at all other than the Self. The enlightened person sees everything in the world as his own Self, just as one views earthenware jars and pots as nothing but clay. Add Shankara
  • The Supreme Spirit or the Brahman is alone real and the individual Self is only the Supreme Self and no other. Brahman is Supreme Intelligence, devoid of attributes, form, changes or limitations. It is self-luminous and all pervading and is without a second. Add Shankara
  • There is no remainder in the mathematics of infinity. All life is one; therefore, there cannot be God and man, nor a universe and God. A god not in the world is a false god, and a world not in God is unreal. All things return to one, and one operates in all. Nyogen Senzaki
  • Lord, my God, … I see Thee to be ‘infinity Itself, wherefore nothing is alien to Thee, nothing differing from Thee, nothing opposed to Thee. For the Infinite allows no otherness from Itself, since, being Infinity, -nothing exists outside It: absolute Infinity includes and contains all things. Nicholas of Cusa
  • In creating our reality, The Knower – God – did not create something apart from himself. God did not create not-God. Our reality, therefore, is God. Just as everything and everybody and all the space in your dream is you, everything in our reality – including our own consciousnesses – is The Knower. There is nothing which is not God. Scott Owen
  • The self remains itself even when the energies of the world throw up endless diversities on the surface of the ocean of consciousness. There are no independent entities in this world known as ‘body’ etc. What is seen as the body and what are seen as notions, the objects of perceptions, the perishable and the imperishable, thoughts and feelings and their meaning – all these are Brahman in Brahman, the infinite consciousness. Yoga Vasistha
  • The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder. All the good and all the evil, the very best and the very worst, the upright and the degenerate- each and all are radically perfect manifestations of Spirit precisely as they are. There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other. Ken Wilber
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God as spirit is everywhere

  • Spirit is everywhere, upon the right, upon the left, above, below, behind, in front. What is the world but Spirit? Mundaka Upanishad
  • There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness and it is everywhere and in all things. Wayne Dyer
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God as consciousness is everywhere

  • Consciousness is only ever having this conversation with itself. There is no ‘other’. There is the appearance of ‘many’, but it’s all the very same one, speaking as all these mouths, listening as all these ears, looking as all these eyes. Nathan Gill
  • Consciousness is prior and unconditioned. It is all there is. There is nothing but God. It is within all this/It is outside all this. The Upanishads
  • The mystical truth that there is nothing but consciousness must be experienced in order to be truly understood. Amit Goswami
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God is a circle whose centre is everywhere

  • God is an infinite circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. Nicholas of Cusa
  • God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere. Joseph Campbell
  • God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. Voltaire
  • God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent – it extends through all space, with all other matter. Orson Pratt
  • When men search for God with their bodily eyes they find Him nowhere, for He is invisible. But for those who ponder in the Spirit He is present everywhere. He is in all, yet beyond all. Symeon the New Theologian
  • Imagine that the world is a circle, that God is the center, and that the radii are the different ways human beings live. When those who wish to come closer to God walk towards the center of the circle, they come closer to one another at the same time as to God. The closer they come to God, the closer they come to one another. And the closer they come to one another, the closer they come to God. Dorotheus of Gaza
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God is being everyone

  • The Self is you. It is everything. It is God. That is who you really are. Sathya Sai Baba
  • God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’ Louie Giglio
  • God inhabits every soul, even those of the greatest sinners in the world. There is always this union between God and his creatures, for through it He preserves their being. If it were not so, these souls would instantly cease to be. St. John of the Cross
  • God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water, the next, your son bouncing on your knees or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk. Nikos Kazantzakis
  • While recognizing that the universe is but an illusion, and life but a puppet-show, he remembers that if God is all there is, then the individual must be a part of or phase of God— and toward the union with God he bends all his soul and life. William Walker Atkinson
  • God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other, we are doing God’s work. So God dresses in Eskimo clothing or other disguises, and responds to us whether or not we are aware enough to hear, see, or feel God’s loving guidance. Everything is a tool of God, from DNA to the weather. Bernie Siegel
  • The universe is you yourself, the unbroken you; you are throughout the universe. “In all hands you work, through all mouths you eat, through all nostrils you breathe, through all minds you think.” You are God, you are the angels, you are man, you are animals, you are the plants, you are the minerals, you are everything. Whatever exists is you. You are the Infinite. Swami Vivekananda
  • Self is what you are. You are That Fathomlessness in which experience and concepts appear. Self is the Moment that has no coming or going. It is the Heart, Atman, Emptiness. It shines to itself, by itself, in itself.Self is what gives breath to Life. You need not search for It, It is Here. You are That through which you would search. You are what you are looking for! And That is All it is. Only Self is.  Papaji
  • We were not simply created by an all-powerful Creator who is completely apart from us and resides in some place separate from us, but rather that we are all literally aspects of the One Infinite Creator who encompasses everyone and everything, always. And if you are religious, then I submit to you that God is in everyone and everything because God is literally everything; One Consciousness appearing as the entire physical and nonphysical universe and beyond, intertwined and interlinked as One Infinite Essence. Ziad Masri
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We can see God in every face

  • But now a great thing in the street Seems any human nod, Where shift in strange democracy The million masks of God. G.K.Chesterton Leo Hartong
  • Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery – encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other. Krista Tippett
  • Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Mother Teresa
  • You’re looking through the kaleidoscope of God and seeing God’s face in so many ways, as friends, as strangers, passersby, country roads, jammed freeways, the cancer ward, the maternity ward – all the faces of God surround you at all times. Frederick Lenz
  • It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature. Ibn Arabi
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God is always as near as near can be

  • Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away? Jeremiah 23:23
  • Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present. Max Lucado
  • God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us. Max Lucado
  • God is equally near in all creatures. Meister Eckhart
  • God is near whether you sense His presence or not. Max Lucado
  • He is hidden in His manifestation, manifest in His concealing. He is outward and inward, near and far. Muhammad Alkalabadhi
  • However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us. Teresa of Avila
  • The Lord is near! You’re not alone. You may feel alone. Max Lucado
  • Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand. Meister Eckhart
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God is in all things…

  • All things are full of God. Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • God is in everything I see. A Course in Miracles
  • This whole world is full of God! Angela of Foligno
  • God dwells in the details. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • God is in everything, and everything is God. Arvind Sharma
  • He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God. William Blake
  • Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God. Jakob Bohme
  • God is in everything whether I’m mentioning him or not. Nick Cave
  • Art means: revealing God in everything that exists. Pope Benedict XVI
  • The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass. Elias Hicks
  • I see God every day… For God is in everything I see. Anthony D. Williams
  • To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything. Thomas Merton
  • If God is in everything, why shouldn’t you taste Him when you eat? George Harrison
  • It’s better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out. Neem Karoli Baba
  • In everything both great and small, We see the Hand of God in all. Helen Steiner Rice
  • Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity. Nicholas of Cusa
  • God is ever present. He’s in every breath, in every step. He’s here, always, always. Jill Scott
  • We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything. Meister Eckhart
  • I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. Venerable Bede
  • The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it. H. Lawrence
  • It is greater worship to God to see Him in all things, than in any special thing. Mother Julian of Norwich
  • For no part of Creation is left void of him: he has filled all things everywhere. Athanasius of Alexandria
  • God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so. Plotinus
  • If God is infinite, then surely God must also be in you. It cannot be infinite everywhere else but in you. Mooji
  • The more God is in all things, the more He is outside them. The more He is within, the more without. Meister Eckhart
  • God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw. John Donne
  • God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God. Frederick Lenz
  • A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart. Charles Grandison Finney
  • The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God. Kabir
  • Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God. Saint Francis de Sales
  • Since everything is God and everything contains God, you see God in everything, everything is a step towards liberation. Frederick Lenz
  • Every place is filled with the presence of God. There is not an inch of space, not a moment of time, that God does not inhabit. John Ortberg
  • There is nothing but God. God is absolutely everything. Everything is God being God. And God is without limit within and without. Barry Long
  • In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work. Seneca the Younger
  • The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God . Giordano Bruno
  • All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust. Mahatma Gandhi
  • God’s entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself. Martin Luther
  • 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
  • All created things are living in the Hand of God. The senses see only the action of the creatures; but faith sees in everything the action of God. Jean-Pierre de Caussade
  • When we are told that God is the maker of all things, we are simply to understand that God is in all things – that He is the substantial essence of all things. John Scotus Eriugena
  • The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors. Julian of Norwich
  • Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form. God is that eternal reality that is in everything. Frederick Lenz
  • Only he to whom God is present in everything and who employs his reason in the highest degree and has enjoyment in it knows anything of true peace and has a real kingdom of heaven. Meister Eckhart
  • The man who has God essentially present to him grasps God divinely, and to him God shines in all things; for everything tastes to him of God, and God forms Himself for the man out of all things. Meister Eckhart
  • We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to ‘speak’ to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always ‘speaking’. The question is whether we are listening. Yasmin Mogahed
  • God is in everything. God is nature’s substance. Julian of Norwich speaks of “smelling” God, “swallowing God in the waters and juices of the earth,” and “feeling God in our bodies, in the body of all creation.” Doug Hammack
  • If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around; search in your breast, and you will find Him there. And if you do not yet perceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say where He is not. Pietro Metastasio
  • A man becomes spiritual insofar as he lives a spiritual life. He begins to see God in all things, to see His power and might in every manifestation. Always and everywhere he sees himself abiding in God and dependent on God for all things. John of Kronstadt
  • In my more lucid moments I know that God is right here, right now; that God is the luminous mystery at the heart of creation and that God is here in the joys and sorrows of the world. And I try to see God in everything and treat all life with reverence. Sy Safransky
  • Atman-knowledge is the state of full awareness, liberation, and freedom that overcomes dualities at all levels, realizing the divine within oneself, the divine in others, and in all living beings; the non-dual oneness, that God is in everything, and everything is God. Arvind Sharma
  • Be open, and God starts pouring into you like wine from every nook and corner of existence. Then wherever you look, you find God. Then whatsoever you touch, you find God. Then whatsoever you drink and eat, you find God. And when God pours from everywhere, then life is a celebration. Rajneesh
  • God is in the water of the lake; he is also in the cracked bed of the lake when the lake has dried up. God is in the abundant harvest; he is also in the famine that occurs when the harvest fails. God is in the lightning; he is also in the darkness when the lightning has faded. Mansur Al-Hallaj
  • Nothing else but seeing God in everything can make us loving and patient with those who annoy us. When we realize that they are only the instruments for accomplishing His purpose in our lives, we will actually be able to thank them [inwardly] for the blessings they bring us. Hannah Whitall Smith
  • The beginning, the end, the manifest and the hidden.The seer and the listener, all is Him,He is in everything yet He is beyond, there is nothing else, everything is Him; abandon the duality of me and you, see one, there aren’t two at all, understand this and disappear in it; when you are not, then truly He is. Hazrat Ali
  • God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them. Bono
  • Each element is part of the whole. The whole exists only in and through the parts. The parts fit together because of the whole. All reveal God. God is present in all: from the earthworm to the rain, from the words of a poet to expressions of physical love. God is the matrix in which everything exists and has being. Flora A. Keshgegian
  • See that I am God. See that I am in everything. See that I do everything. See that I have never stopped ordering my works, nor ever shall, eternally. See that I lead everything on to the conclusion I ordained for it before time began, by the same power, wisdom and love with which I made it. How can anything be amiss? Julian of Norwich
  • Divinity reveals herself in all things. Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being. Giordano Bruno
  • The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God absent from it; the loftiest seraph is but a spark from the eternal fire, which is God. Sharers in one life all form one brotherhood. The immanence of God, the solidarity of man, such are the basic truths of theosophy. Annie Besant
  • A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him… He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere. Meister Eckhart
  • I have realised that the Divine is already in everyone and everything. Everything radiates with the spark of Eternity if we have the inner sight to see it. And then, as William Blake said so exquisitely, we are able to see infinity in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower. The world is adorned with such beauty and perfection if we would only open our eyes to it. And so are we. Aimee Davies
  • I have seen the One who is, and how He is the being of all creatures. God is present in everything that exists, in a devil and a good angel. In heaven and hell, in good deeds and in adultery and murder, in the beautiful and the ugly. Therefore, while I am in this Truth, I take as much delight in seeing and understanding his presence in a devil and the act of adultery as I do in an angel and a good deed. Angela of Foligno
  • Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the tiny insects crawling in the grass: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the fish in the river and sea….There is no creature on earth in whom God is absent… his breath had brought every creature to life… God’s spirit is present within plant as well. The presence of God’s spirit in all living things is what makes them beautiful; and if we look with God’s eyes, nothing on earth is ugly. Pelagius
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… the essence in all forms…

  • God dwells in the details. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Ishvara not only creates the world, but then also enters into everything there is. Karur Rangan
  • Love God, love all, serve all, and have respect for all, as God is immanent in all forms. Kirpal Singh
  • It is greater worship to God to see Him in all things, than in any special thing. Mother Julian of Norwich
  • Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells? William Blake
  • The more God is in all things, the more He is outside them. The more He is within, the more without. Meister Eckhart
  • God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth. Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God. Saint Francis de Sales
  • God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within. Eckhart Tolle
  • Every place is filled with the presence of God. There is not an inch of space, not a moment of time, that God does not inhabit. John Ortberg
  • All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust. Mahatma Gandhi
  • When we are told that God is the maker of all things, we are simply to understand that God is in all things – that He is the substantial essence of all things. John Scotus Eriugena
  • God is present in all: from the earthworm to the rain, from the words of a poet to expressions of physical love. God is the matrix in which everything exists and has being. Flora A. Keshgegian
  • Love God, love all, serve all, and have respect for all, as God is immanent in all forms. My goal is that of oneness. I spread the message of oneness in life and living.This is the way to peace on earth. This is the mission of my life, and I pray that it may be fulfilled. Kirpal Singh
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…present in every atom…

  • God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him. Annie Besant
  • God is everywhere, inside an atom also. We need to see space as God, as energy to feel his presence. Srivathsa
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…present in all beings

  • Creation is God’s presence in creatures. Wendell Berry
  • All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us. Martin Luther
  • God’s entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself. Martin Luther
  • Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the tiny insects crawling in the grass: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the fish in the river and sea….There is no creature on earth in whom God is absent… his breath had brought every creature to life… God’s spirit is present within plant as well. The presence of God’s spirit in all living things is what makes them beautiful; and if we look with God’s eyes, nothing on earth is ugly. Pelagius
  • Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion. Giordano Bruno
  • God manifests as all living beings, or at the very least, dwells within the hearts of all living beings as the higher Self. Swami Atmajanananda
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God is all pervading

  • We live in a spiritual Universe. God is in, through, around and for us. Ernest Holmes
  • I am as rich as God for there is no grain of dust that I do not share in common with him. Angelus Silesius
  • The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too. Mahatma Gandhi
  • The same undivided and indivisible space is outside and inside of a thousand pots. Likewise, the Self pervades all beings. Yogavasistha Maharamayana
  • I see, Lord, through Thine infinite mercy, that Thou art Infinity encompassing all things. Nothing exists outside Thee, and all things -in Thee are not other than Thee. Nicholas of Cusa
  • God or the sacred is beyond all words, concepts, and images; not “a being,” but “a nonmaterial layer or level or dimension of reality that both permeates everything and at the same time is more than everything. Marcus Borg
  • Mystics throughout time, in all traditions, have said the same thing. We do not have to search for God because the presence of the Divine permeates all things. If there is a search at all, it is God searching for Itself, so to speak. Rabbi David Cooper
  • Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows. Lucy Larcom
  • Where will you go to seek Brahman? He is immanent in all beings. Here, here is the visible Brahman! Shame on those who, neglecting the visible Brahman, set their minds on other things! Here is the visible Brahman before you as tangible as a fruit in one’s hand! Can’t you see? Here – here – is Brahman!
  • The whole of God is present at every point in space at the same time. Take time to meditate on this great idea. In other words, God doesn’t come and go. God doesn’t capriciously move substance from God’s supply up there” to fill your needs “down here.” Nor does God answer prayer in some kind of coming forth. God is always present, totally present – as a Presence. Eric Butterworth
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God is everywhere in his creation…

  • All existence is a manifestation of God. Sri Aurobindo
  • The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation. Walter Russell
  • God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod. Robert Browning
  • I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God’s careless splatters. El Greco
  • Deep within the self is the Light of God. It radiates throughout the expanse of His creation. Guru Amar Das
  • It has not deserted its creation for a place apart; it is always present to those with strength to touch it. Plotinus
  • The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all. Thomas Merton
  • The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth. Mahatma Gandhi
  • In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness… I see what people call God in all these things. Pablo Casals
  • Beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him. Charles Kingsley
  • The Lord is in everything that’s in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it’s really a reflection of God. You see it in other people – that’s him too, you know? George Harrison
  • God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them. Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them. Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • If heaven is understood more as God’s space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think. Jon Meacham
  • For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? He is watching over you and protecting you. Martin Luther
  • God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity … down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. C. S. Lewis
  • The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter. Lucan
  • Everywhere I find the signature, the autograph of God, and he will never deny his own handwriting. God has set his tabernacle in the dewdrop as surely as in the sun. No man can any more create the smallest flower than he could create the greatest world. Joseph Parker
  • And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who invented the tree in my front yard, the beauty of my sweetheart, the taste of a blueberry, the violence of a river at flood. Donald Miller
  • God is not a ‘being’ removed from creation, ruling it from outside in the manner of a patriarchal ruler; God is the source of being that underlies creation and grounds its nature and future potential for continual transformative renewal in biophilic mutuality. Rosemary Radford Ruether
  • If you have your attention on what is see its fullness in every moment you will discover the dance of the divine in every leaf in every petal, in every blade of grass, in every rainbow, in every rushing stream, in every breath of every living being. …beyond memory and judgement lies the ocean of universal consciousness. Deepak Chopra
  • In a panentheistic universe trees reveal the stature of God. Mountains tell of the grandeur of God. Flowers, in all their variety and riot of colors, gesture to the transcendence of God. Rivers and oceans express the energy and power of God. Human beings reflect the glory of God. Divine mystery is as close as breath. Flora A. Keshgegian
  • If God is present in creation, then it follows that our knowledge of God and our relationship with God are in and through what God has created. We can find the divine and expressions of God’s will all around us. We do not have to leave earth behind to find heaven. We do not have to deny our bodies to save our souls. We do not have to negate our humanity to seek God. Flora A. Keshgegian
  • God is discovered entirely through creation – the brilliance of a sunset, the powerful roar of a waterfall, the symphony of sounds you hear in the heart of the forest, or the vastness of space and its countless stars. God is the mastermind behind all matter – every earth shattering scientific discovery and mystery that is yet to be unraveled was dreamed and enacted by God. Benjamin F Sullivan
  • I may not be able to see it right now, but the Holy One fills all creation, being is made of God, you and I, everything is made of God – even the grains of sand beneath my feet, the whole world is included and therefore utterly nullified within God – while I, in my stubborn insistence on my own autonomy and independence, only succeed in banishing my self from any possibility of meaning whatsoever.. Kalynomous Kalmish Shapira of Piesetzna
  • I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig–or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery. Jostein Gaarder
  • Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only to saunter through the garden or the fields, listening to the sermon preached by the flowers, the trees, the meadows, the sun, the sky, and the whole universe. You will find that they exhort you to love and praise God; that they excite you to extol the greatness of the Sovereign Architect Who has given them their being. Paul of the Cross
  • God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is with us in our wheelchairs, or on our hospital beds, when all we can do is sit or lie flat. When we envision Him and His purpose in what we do, then we begin to grow aware of His presence in the middle of it. We are able to engage in our inward conversation with Him as we work, naturally, without strain. He becomes our partner, our collaborator. Sue Monk Kidd
  • God is a God of galaxies, of storms, of roaring seas and boiling thunder, but He is also the God of bread baking, of a child’s smile, of dust motes in the sun. He is who He is, and always shall be. Look around you now. He is speaking always and everywhere. His personality can be seen and known and leaned upon. The sun is belching flares while mountains scrape our sky while ants are milking aphids on their colonial leaves and dolphins are laughing in the surf and wheat is rippling and wind is whipping and a boy is looking into the eyes of a girl and mortals are dying. D. Wilson
  • Panentheism, which literally means “all in God;’ connotes this idea that God is to be found in creation. God contains the world and is present in and to the world. The transcendence of God is not otherness, defined as total separation. Transcendence is not opposed to immanence. Indeed, it might be imagined through immanence, transcendence in immanence. This does not mean that the divine is equivalent to the world, an idea often referred to as pantheism, that “all is God.” God is in, yet distinct from, creation. The divine is not exhausted by presence in creation, but neither does God shrink away from it. Flora A. Keshgegian
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…especially in nature

  • Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed. Patti Smith
  • Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants. Jakob Bohme
  • Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. Brigham Young
  • Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things. Giordano Bruno
  • My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that. Alice Walker
  • Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev’ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power. Maud Lindsay
  • The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves. Terry Tempest Williams
  • Christ wears “two shoes” in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God. Johannes Scotus Eriugena
  • Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest. Emily Carr
  • Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect. Giordano Bruno
  • When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality and of the Reality of God. But when your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real and blazes transparently with the Reality of God. Thomas Merton
  • The best thing is to go from nature’s God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature’s God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Charles Spurgeon
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God is present in every moment and experience

  • To God, all things are present; there is no past or future – it is all now. Mother Angelica
  • Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God’s, or the Guru’s, compassionate face. Mata Amritanandamayi
  • Every moment of life is like a sacrament in which we can receive God. It is a channel through which God speaks to us, forms us, and directs us. Mother Angelica
  • The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all. Richard J. Foster
  • The belief that a personal life exists apart from God creates experience disconnected from God. This is painful and frustrating. Our spiritual work is to break down the illusion that we have a life here and that a life of God is somewhere else. Michael Beckwith
  • Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid. Jean-Pierre de Caussade
  • Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God’s name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever. Walt Whitman
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Nothing is not God

  • In that vision nothing is seen other than Thyself, for Thou art Thyself the object of Thyself for Thou seest, and art That which is seen, and art the sight as well. Nicholas of Cusa
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Everything is in God

  • You are in God. A Course in Miracles
  • When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart”, but rather, “I am in the heart of God”. Kahlil Gibran
  • 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
  • Panentheism suggests that interconnection is an expression of divine presence. Everything exists in relation to everything else because all is contained in God. The divine is active in and through everything, weaving relations. God’s will Is for interrelationship. God created and infused all with divine presence. Flora A. Keshgegian
  • God can never be close. God can never be close because it would mean that there is some place where God is not. God is infinite. We cannot exist outside of the infinite. Therefore, God is our Reality. Mooji
  • The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God. E. Lawrence
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On a lighter note

  • God can’t be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers. Edwin Arnold
  • God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Rudyard Kipling
  • If God is everywhere, I had concluded, then He is in food. Therefore, the more I ate the godlier I would become. Impelled by this new religious fervor, I glutted myself like a fanatic. Woody Allen
  • They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. Emily Dickinson
  • Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything. Ambrose Bierce