Quotes from Khalil Gibran
When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still.
- Khalil Gibran
God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.
- Khalil Gibran
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.
- Khalil Gibran
To be closer to God, be closer to people.
- Khalil Gibran
A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those who pursue a different path to eternity, there would be no human who should offer worship.
- Khalil Gibran
My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.
- Khalil Gibran
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
- Khalil Gibran
You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.
- Khalil Gibran
This for God and this for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?
- Khalil Gibran
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
- Khalil Gibran
From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.
- Khalil Gibran
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
- Khalil Gibran