God is within us (quotes)

We look for God out there in the sky…

I talk to God but the sky is empty. Sylvia Plath
The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God. Pierre-Simon Laplace
Gagarin flew into space, but didn’t see any god there. Nikita Khrushchev
I am high in the sky, and still I do not see the face of god. Gherman Titov

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…not realising God is within us

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. Alan Watts
Let God be God in you. Meister Eckhart
If there is a God, he is within. Bruce Lee
It is within you that the divine lives. Joseph Campbell
There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. Ovid
There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us. Ovid
God is near you, is with you, is inside you. Seneca the Younger
God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us. Max Lucado
He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God. William Blake
You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not. Epictetus
Don’t look for God in the sky; look within your own body. Rajneesh
Love God and find him within – the only treasure worth finding. Meher Baba
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you. Joseph Campbell
All of man’s ills are due to his lack of knowing God within him. Walter Russell
The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you and me. Kathryn Kuhlman
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it. Louis Pasteur
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us. Teresa of Avila
Let the God within you express itself through you in the world without. Charles Fillmore
When the Spirit of God moves within us, we must move with Him or be miserable. Beth Moore
All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered. Erwin McManus
I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me. Meister Eckhart
God is a spiritual Presence not only in the universe and nature, but also within each person. Tom Harpur
Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you. Swami Muktananda
I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions. Elie Wiesel
Deep within the self is the Light of God. It radiates throughout the expanse of His creation. Guru Amar Das
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? Paramahansa Yogananda
To realise our true Oneness with God, we once again become consciously aware of the God-in-Us. Alan H. Dawe
Only let there be God within us, and then every thing outside us will become a godlike help. William Mountford
There is a divine purpose behind everything – and therefore a divine presence in everything. Neale Donald Walsch
There’s the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them. Van Jones
You realize that all along there was something tremendous within you, and you did not know it. Paramahansa Yogananda
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme. Bruce Lee
The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties. Meher Baba
If we want to find God, we have to look within, into the realm of deep mind-a realm that science has yet to explore. Peter Russell
God is building Himself in to us, making Himself part of us as the Word rules, dominates and sanctifies our spirit nature. B. Joshua
To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us – that would be a powerless and fruitless faith. Phillips Brooks
I believe in God but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. John Lennon
Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves! Hakim Bey
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose. Jorge Luis Borges
The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized. Paramahansa Yogananda
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
The healing principle is within man himself. Man’s power to heal himself, or extend his healing power to others, is measured by his awareness of God in him. Walter Russell
The eye of God is inside us. It’s looking through us and it sees whatever we look at. Sometimes I think we could give God better things to look at, don’t you? Frederick Lenz
Every time I recognize the glory of God in me and give it space to manifest itself to me, all that is human can be brought there and nothing will be the same again. Henri Nouwen
The key is to trust in your own divinity, to know that you are a piece of God, and that you are like what you came from. As a spiritual being, you have Divinity within. Wayne Dyer
Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God. Sri Chinmoy
I don’t believe in God. I believe gods and devils are within us. It’s our own battle. Our life’s battle is to appeal to the gods within us, and to fight the devils within us. Eddie Izzard
What deadens us most to God’s presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought. Frederick Buechner
The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment Rudolf Steiner
Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge. Ramakrishna
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
One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside. Shirley MacLaine
Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God’s Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty. Ernest Holmes
This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that’s really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it’s not for us to reason why everything is what it is… just do it. Jon Anderson
Lo, I am with you always means when you look for God, God is in the look of your eyes, in the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self, or things that have happened to you. There’s no need to go outside. Rumi
So a man must be pervaded with the divine presence, and be shaped through and through with the form of the God he loves, and be present in Him, so that God’s presence may shine out to him without any effort. Meister Eckhart
God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life. Joseph Campbell
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
We have the same qualities as God, just like a drop of the ocean has the same qualities as the whole ocean. Everybody’s looking for something and we are it. We don’t have to look anywhere–it’s right there within ourselves. George Harrison
You can find God if you will only seek – by obeying divine laws, by loving people, by relinquishing self-will, attachments, negative thoughts and feelings. And when you find God it will be in stillness. You will find God within. Peace Pilgrim
When asked where God is, people point towards the sky or some far and distant region: no wonder then that He does not manifest Himself! Realize that He is in you, with you, behind you, and all around you; and He can be seen and felt everywhere. Sathya Sai Baba
Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves. Karen Armstrong
Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it’s the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God. Eben Alexander
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you. Where goest thou to seek for the Kingdom of God, asks Jesus of Nazareth, when it is there, within you? Cleanse the spirit, and it is there. It is already yours. How can you get what is not yours? It is yours by right. You are the heirs of immortality, sons of the Eternal Father. Swami Vivekananda
Most important, do not ever think that you and God are separate. Think always, “God is with me; He is inside me; He is around me. All there is is God. I myself am God. I am the Infinite, the Eternal. I am not two; I am one, only one. There is no one else besides me. I and God are one and the same.” To realize this Unity, the first step is to develop Self-confidence. It comes when you realize that God is not outside of you. Sathya Sai Baba

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…in our very soul

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish. St. Catherine of Siena
Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you. Rabindranath Tagore
The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God . Giordano Bruno
I am as great as the thoughts I conceive. I am as great as the Universe I perceive. I am as great as the love of my heart. I am as great as the God in my Soul. Robert Muller

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If God is infinite, God must be within

If God is infinite, then surely God must also be in you. It cannot be infinite everywhere else but in you. Mooji

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The Kingdom of God is within us

The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! Charlie Chaplin
The Kingdom of God is Within You. Leo Tolstoy
The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. God is within us. He is the Soul of our souls. See Him in your own soul. That is practical religion. That is freedom. Swami Vivekananda
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

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God is in everyone…

Don’t create enmity with anyone as God is within everyone. Guru Arjan
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer. Ramakrishna
God sits in the temple of every human being. Oh, to know God’s private address. Stanislaw Jerzy
God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us. Peter Altenberg
God within us is communicating with God above us, and we know that this communication is pure and powerful. Judson Cornwall
He is the God of everything, he’s inside you and me. Jethro Tull
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong. John Lennon
INNATE is God in human beings. INNATE is good in human beings. INNATE cannot be cheated, violated, or tricked. INNATE is always waiting, ready to communicate with you, and when INNATE is in contact you are in tune with the Infinite. J. Palmer
See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma. Neem Karoli Baba
The same undivided and indivisible space is outside and inside of a thousand pots. Likewise, the Self pervades all beings. Yogavasistha Maharamayana
The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us. George Harrison
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you. Thomas Merton
There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence – “Thou art in the woman, thou in the man, thou in the young man walking in the pride of youth, thou in the old man tottering on his stick – thou art All – in all, in everything, and I am thee, because I am made from thee.” Swami Vivekananda

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…and in all living 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 in all things…

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
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
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
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
Art means: revealing God in everything that exists. Pope Benedict XVI
God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God. Frederick Lenz
Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity. Nicholas of Cusa
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
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
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
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
This whole world is full of God! Angela of Foligno

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… in all forms…

God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth. Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
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 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
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
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 dwells in the details. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Love God, love all, serve all, and have respect for all, as God is immanent in all forms. Kirpal Singh
Ishvara not only creates the world, but then also enters into everything there is. Karur Rangan
It is greater worship to God to see Him in all things, than in any special thing. Mother Julian of Norwich
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
The more God is in all things, the more He is outside them. The more He is within, the more without. Meister Eckhart
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
Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells? William Blake

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…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
Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the illuminating Light of Christ Consciousness, present in every soul, every flower, every atom. Paramahansa Yogananda

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God is at the centre of our being

A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise. Bill Crawford
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our life, which is inaccessable to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us. Thomas Merton
In our dark times, we encourage one another to go within, to find God’s Spirit at our very centers. Doug Hammack
At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us. Black Elk

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God resides in the heart…

The God within is your Spiritual Heart. Your Soul. And in that individual Soul, rests God- rests the One. Go into your soul and your heart-space which can be Awareness, Love, Compassion, etc…and just BE your heart-space. BE your Soul so that you can LOVE unconditionally. Ram Dass
Are you asking me if there is a god?’ he said, still in that soft voice. ‘All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there. Sharon Shinn
You are never alone. God is nearer than your own heart. Swami Satchidananda
Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart. Meher Baba
Do not seek God in outer space– Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face. Angelus Silesius
The master became a legend in his lifetime. It was said that God once sought his advice: “I want to play a game of hide-and-seek with humankind. I’ve asked my angels what the best place is to hide in. Some say the depth of the ocean. Others say the top of the highest mountain. Others still the far side of the moon or a distant star. What do you suggest? Said the Master, “Hide in the human heart. That is the last place they will think of!” Anthony De Mello
God is in my heart; I see God in my daughter and my mother. Jackie Shroff
God is without visible form, yet in the heart, God is revealed. Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
There is only one immediate question: Where is God? The immediate answer is: God is where My heart’s love-breath is. Sri Chinmoy
God lives no place. He lives in the space of eternity, in the center of our hearts. Sophy Burnham
I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn’t find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn’t find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn’t find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was. Rumi
If we empty our hearts of self, God will fill them with His love. Charles Spurgeon
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
Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don’t break a human heart. For that is where God resides. Bulleh Shah
When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere. Sivananda
Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing – right in the hub of the wheel – not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness – that’s your heart. That’s where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you’ll always find peace. Elizabeth Gilbert

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…and in the mind

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
God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God. Frederick Lenz
The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more! Max Lucado

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God dwells in us as us

God dwells within you, as you. Elizabeth Gilbert
Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you. Swami Muktananda
God dwells in you, as you, and you don’t have to ‘do’ anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your true and natural state. Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward, and sacrifice your ego mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being. For this to be your own presently lived experience, Self-Inquiry Meditation is a direct and immediate way. Ramana Maharshi
God dwells within me. As me. Julia Roberts

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God is within us as our divine self

God is the highest place within each and every one of us. It’s our divine self. Wayne Dyer

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God is active in us

The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God’s willingness to help. It has to do with your acceptance of how the Infinite is already active within you, how it has already placed within you all that you need to solve and dissolve inner conflict through conscious communion with the Self. Michael Beckwith
We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost. C. Sproul

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God pours himself into you

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 must act and pour himself into you the moment he finds you ready. Don’t imagine that God can be compared to an earthly carpenter, who acts or doesn’t act, as he wishes; who can will to do something or leave it undone, according to his pleasure. It is not that way with God: where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that. Meister Eckhart
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. T. B. Joshua

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God is the light in us…

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence. Helen Keller
Once you have the light of God within you, you see things within yourself that you did not know existed. Things that were hidden in darkness are now in light. I see myself as able to forgive… to love… I even see talents in myself that I didn’t see before. Tasha Smith

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…shining out from within us

So a man must be pervaded with the divine presence, and be shaped through and through with the form of the God he loves, and be present in Him, so that God’s presence may shine out to him without any effort. Meister Eckhart

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God is the goodness within us

A better story also changes how we raise our children. We teach them to look deeply within themselves for divine wisdom. We teach them to look past the surface experience of confusion, failure, or shortcoming. We teach them to define themselves by goodness radiating from something richer, deeper, and truer. We train them to seek out the indwelling Divine, listen for the inner voice, and trust the inner virtue present within them. Of course, we teach them to listen to us for a season, but ultimately, our training focuses on helping them listen to and honor the Deep within themselves. Doug Hammack
God is what’s good in me. John Gunther
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within. B. Simpson
In every good man a God doth dwell. Seneca the Younger

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God is the bliss and joy within us

Look within. Within you is the hidden God. Within you is the immortal soul. Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure. Within you is the ocean of bliss. Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain. Sivananda
Joy is the echo of God’s life within us. Columba Marmion
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is. Joseph Campbell

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God is the energy within us

Also, not willing to reduce God to a person metaphor, Julian of Norwich insisted God is energy just as truly as God is being. We are not only made by God, we are made of God, containing within our own beings the animating energy of the Divine. If God is the very source of our being, it is by looking within ourselves that we find God, the very essence of our truest selves. Doug Hammack

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God is the pure potentiality in all of us

God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality. Rajneesh

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Seek God within

He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God. B. Warfield

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Realise God within you

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

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Let God in

The Kotzker rebbe, Menahem Mendel (19th century), a famous hasidic teacher who lived his last twenty years in voluntary seclusion, asked one of his students, “Where does God dwell?” As the student stumbled in his attempt to respond, the Kotzker rebbe answered his own question, “God resides wherever we let God in!” Rabbi David A. Cooper
The Lord is knocking at the door of our hearts. Have we put a sign on the door saying: ‘Do not disturb’? Pope Francis

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Fill yourself with God

Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with. Desmond Tutu

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Make manifest the glory of God within

Indeed, when God’s glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or too familiar that it cannot contain and renew by its touch. Every time I recognize the glory of God in me and give it space to manifest itself to me, all that is human can be brought there and nothing will be the same again. Henri Nouwen
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. Marianne Williamson

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Focus on God within rather than obsessing over sin

The idea of an indwelling divinity does not sit well in Western cultures. Our predominant religions assure us that we are born as unworthy sinners doomed to perdition unless we are redeemed through an act of salvation. To claim natural divinity rather than acknowledging our natural unworthiness is considered blasphemous. People who have laid claim to this realization have often paid with their lives. Larry Dossey

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Knowing God is within all, treat all with reverence

If God is in all things, then all things and creatures in our environment are divine, and they must be preserved and treated with reverence. Elizabeth Achtemeier

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Discover God within through meditation

When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within. Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells. Paramahansa Yogananda
Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Not only is God within us, but we are also within God

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God. T. E. Lawrence
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
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
I, Consciousness, am in God within. Barry Long
The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms. Hildegard of Bingen
We exist within the question of God. William Barrett
You are within God. God is within you. Peace Pilgrim
You can’t truly rest until every area in your life rests in God. Aiden Wilson Tozer

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On a lighter note

If God dwells inside us like some people say I sure hope he likes enchiladas because that’s what he’s getting. Jack Handey

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