Quotes from Bede Griffiths
God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.
- Bede Griffiths
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.
- Bede Griffiths
I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
- Bede Griffiths
The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.
- Bede Griffiths
It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
- Bede Griffiths
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.
- Bede Griffiths
Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
- Bede Griffiths
The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.
- Bede Griffiths
This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.
- Bede Griffiths
...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.
- Bede Griffiths
You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
- Bede Griffiths
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.
- Bede Griffiths