I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil GibranRead
To be closer to god, be closer to people.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Connecting with others can deepen your spiritual experience.
This quote by Khalil Gibran emphasizes the importance of relationships with people as a way to enhance one's connection with the divine. It suggests that by fostering love, understanding, and compassion in our interactions, we can achieve greater spiritual fulfillment and come nearer to a higher power.
Themes
SpiritualityConnectionRelationshipsDivinePeople
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about community service, someone could cite this quote to encourage helping others.
More from Khalil Gibran
All quotes βBe patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.
Khalil GibranRead
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil GibranRead
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Khalil GibranRead
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
Khalil GibranRead
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
Khalil GibranRead
Similar quotes
The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.
Oswald ChambersRead
Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.
Max LucadoRead
Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.
Julian Of NorwichRead
O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. _x000D_ Let me find you again. Amen.
Henri NouwenRead
A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.
Timothy KellerRead
Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing us to become truly ourselves... His gaze, the touch of His heart heals us through an undeniably painful transformation "as through fire". But it is a blessed pain, in which the holy power of His love sears through us like a flame, enabling us to become totally ourselves and thus totally of God.
Pope Benedict XviRead