Quotes About God Rumi

#1. Come beloved, and sit at the gate of Nothingness, God will bring you bread without the taste of bread, Sweetness without the honey or the bee, And when the future and past are dissolved There will only be you, lying senseless like a lute On the breast of God. - Rumi

Ian Gawler

#2. God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion !

Rumi

#3. The Ego is a veil between humans and God'."
"In prayer all are equal.

Rumi

#4. God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

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#5. This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that remedy just now. In the hour of need it will be made clear to you. The Prophet said God made a remedy for every pain.

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#6. The lovers of God have no religion but God alone.

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#7. I am your own voice echoing off the walls of God

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#8. Remember God so much that you are forgotten.

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#9. God continually turns you from one state of feeling to another, revealing truth by means of opposites.... So that you may have the two wings of fear and hope; for the bird with one wing is unable to fly....

Jalaluddin Rumi

#10. Nearness to God is common to us all,
Because we're all created and sustained by God,
But only the authentically noble
Possess and live that nearness
That's a constant upswelling passion of love.

Rumi

#11. Then you pray the prayer that is the essence of every ritual: God, I have no hope. I am torn to shreds. You are my first and my last and only refuge. Don't do daily prayers like a bird pecking, moving its head up and down. Prayer is an egg. Hatch out the total helplessness inside. - RUMI

Tim Farrington

#12. If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.

Rumi

#13. The wailing of broken hearts
is the doorway to God.

Rumi

#14. Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#15. When God
wishes to help,
he lets us weep.
Wherever water flows,
life flourishes,
wherever tears fall
divine mercy is shown.

Rumi

#16. God looks not at your form, nor at your deeds, but at your Heart.

Rumi

#17. The woman
has great power. Se can tie knots in your chest that only God's breathing loosens. Don't
take her appeal lightly.

Rumi

#18. light of Spirit God sends it trials of suffering and pain so the gold of the Spirit may manifest. Surrender,

Jalaluddin Rumi

#19. By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

Rumi

#20. You who seek God, apart, apart The thing you seek, thou art, thou art. If you want to seek the Beloved's face. Polish the mirror, gaze into that space. These words were written by Rumi as a tribute for his master guru Shams of Tabriz.

Wayne W. Dyer

#21. Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state.

Rumi

#22. We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

Rumi

#23. Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

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#24. Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?

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#25. God does not look at your outer forms,
but at the love within your love.

Rumi

#26. You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.

Holly Lynn Payne

#27. I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

Rumi

#28. Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

Rumi

#29. Sell Not Yourself At Little Price, Being So Precious In
God's Eyes.

Rumi

#30. Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart.

Rumi

#31. I profess the religion of love,
Love is my religion and my faith.
My mother is love
My father is love
My prophet is love
My God is love
I am a child of love
I have come only to speak of love.

Rumi

#32. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

Rumi

#33. You believe God is not there, but He is, Hidden in the secret of the divine mystery

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#34. There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

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#35. Every prophet and every saint has a way, But all lead to God. All ways are really one.

Rumi

#36. God Will Remain in you if duality Is Not Remain in You.

Rumi

#37. Oh god
Let all lovers be content
Give them happy endings
Let their lives be celebrations
Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love

Rumi

#38. It is in the vision of the physical eyes
That no invisible or secret thing exists.
But when the eye is turned toward the Light of God
What thing could remain hidden under such Light?

Meghan Nuttall Sayres

#39. Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your Heart from the darkness of hate

Rumi

#40. Woman is the light of God.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#41. The wit taught by God to the bee
Is withheld from the lion and the wild ass.

Rumi

#42. The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God.

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#43. The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.

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#44. Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.

Rumi

#45. Don't try to steer the boat.
Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent.
You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear,
And if you do speak, ask for explanations.

Rumi

#46. Without delay, from the middle of his (closed) fist every pebble began to pronounce the (Moslem's) profession of faith. Each said, "There is no god" and (each) said, "except Allah"; (each) threaded the pearl of "Ahmad is the Messenger of Allah.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#47. Love is the house of God and you are living in that house.

Rumi

#48. Though the words of the great saints appear in a hundred different forms, since God is one and the Way is one, how can their words be different? Though their teachings appear to contradict, their meaning is one. Separation exists in their outward form only; in inner purpose they all agree.

Rumi

#49. Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here.

Rumi

#50. When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.

Rumi

#51. God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.
Each note is a need coming through one of us,
a passion, a longing pain.
Remember the lips
where the wind-breath originated,
and let your note be clear.
Don't try to end it.
Be your note.

Rumi

#52. Rumi and Shams bring to our lives the simple truth that we are not alone, that God really does care. And God's joyous love for each of us is rivaled only by Her divine sense of humor.

Jamila Hammad

#53. God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.

Rumi

#54. Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

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#55. God (in His mercy) accepts false coin.

Rumi

#56. To Love is to reach God.

Rumi

#57. We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces.

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#58. You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside

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#59. There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.

Rumi

#60. God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him.

Rumi

#61. Water the fruit trees, and don't water the thorns. Be generous to what nurtures the spirit and God's luminous reason-light. Don't honor what causes dysentry and knotted up tumors.

Coleman Barks

#62. God has allowed some magical reversal to occur,
so that you see the scorpion pit
as an object of desire,
and all the beautiful expanse around it
as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

Rumi

#63. Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al

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#64. Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

Rumi

#65. When LOVE for GOD has been doubled in your HEART,
there is no doubt that GOD has love for YOU.

Rumi

#66. Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

Rumi

#67. Shams was the wind that would blow the scholar's turban off from Rumi's head, and turn a quiet academic into an enthusiastic lover of God.

Cihan Okuyucu

#68. There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.

Rumi

#69. Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.

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#70. Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God.

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#71. Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it.
For God has placed a pearl in sorrow's hand.

Rumi

#72. Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

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#73. What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

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#74. To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life.

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#75. The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked

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#76. That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

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#77. The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement.

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#78. God has given us a dark wine so potent that, drinking it, we leave the two worlds.

Rumi

#79. Of the book of God
Thou art a copying,
A mirror, wherein showed
The beauty of the King.
All God ever wrought
Dwelleth not apart;
All thou hast ever sought,
Find it in thy heart.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#80. Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.

Rumi

#81. I'm the devoted slave of anyone who doesn't claim to have attained dining with God at every way station. Many inns must be left behind before you reach your home.

Rumi

#82. Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God
manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of
the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and
the leaf.

Rumi

#83. Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.

Rumi

#84. I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine

Jalaluddin Rumi

#85. If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

Rumi

#86. Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God.

Rumi

#87. There are thousands of wines
that can take over our minds.
Don't think all ecstasies
are the same!
Jesus was lost in his love for God.
His donkey was drunk with barley.

Rumi

#88. God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one

Rumi

#89. The way of God's Messenger
is the way of Love.
We are the children of Love.
Love is our Mother.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#90. If God should smile at someone once ..he then
will not hurt by bitter looks from men

Rumi

#91. God put thorns around the
Love's door to stop anyone
who's not a Lover from entering.

Rumi

#92. Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right ...
That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

Rumi

#93. You have read in the text where They love him
blends with He loves them.
Those joining loves
are both qualities of God. Fear is not.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#94. Jesus was lost in his love for God.

Rumi

#95. Lots of ways to reach God,
I chose love.

Rumi

#96. The hearts of all mystic lovers." Likewise when Ibn Arabi, the distinguished philosopher, writer, and mystic, saw the young Rumi walking behind his father one day, he exclaimed, "Glory be to God, an ocean is

Elif Shafak

#97. For those who realize that everything is from God, everything is the same.

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#98. Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.

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#99. O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.

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#100. Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.

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