Feel Quotes

Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Bede Griffiths

British

December 17, 1906

Clergyman

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

Tags: Men Freedom Most

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.

Tags: Time God Me

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.

Tags: God Knowledge Me