God Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.”

“But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.”

“The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.”

“I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self, then imagine—just imagine!—what God, in all His eternal compassion, can forgive and accept.”

“You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.”

“But God does give us responsibility, and it takes biblical faith to do those things in dependence on God.”

“We can neither hurry nor hasten the works of God.”

“Everybody's lookin for God everywhere on the outside. He ain't in no book, and He ain't in no preacher, and He ain't in nothin or no one on the outside. You got to go inside 'cause that's where God is- in the deepest place inside you. And ain't nobody gon' make God tell you nothin. Ain't nobody gon' have no wisdome 'bout nothin if they thinks they can read 'bout it or hear about it from some man or woman. That got to come from revelation. That got to come from the Holy Spirit inside us, and that ain't somethin that can be bargained for. You can't achieve revelation. You can't work for what's free.”

“Faith in God alone fashions the giants that slay those who have presumed to have fashioned giants by faith in themselves alone.”

“Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.”

“Man in his spiritual pride has exchanged God’s method of self-denial for Satan’s plan of self–improvement.”