I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
My father used to see God in human beings and in his work. Each person has his own way.
It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.
After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.
And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.
I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.
My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.
There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.
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