Love Poems from God Quotes

“BIRDS DON’T BRAG ABOUT FLYING Birds don’t brag about flying the way we do. They don’t write books about it and then give workshops, they don’t take on disciples and spoil their own air time. Who could dance and achieve liftoff with a bunch of whackos tugging on you?”
― Daniel Ladinsky, Love Poems from God: Inspirations from Twelve Sacred Voices of the East and West

“My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.”
― Daniel Ladinsky, Love Poems from God: Inspirations from Twelve Sacred Voices of the East and West

“Show me where it hurts, God said, and every cell in my body burst into tears before His tender eyes. He has repaid me though for all my suffering in a way I never wanted: The sun is now in homage to my face, because it knows I have seen God. But that was not His payment. The soul cannot describe His gift. I just spoke about the sun like that because I like beautiful words, and because it is true: Creation is in homage to us.”
― Daniel Ladinsky, Love Poems from God: Inspirations from Twelve Sacred Voices of the East and West

“Always from the child's hand the sword
should be removed

I think every nation is
an infant.”
― Daniel Ladinsky, Love Poems from God: Inspirations from Twelve Sacred Voices of the East and West

“A plague is spread by one
who cannot tell
the truth.”
― Daniel Ladinsky, Love Poems from God: Inspirations from Twelve Sacred Voices of the East and West

“There is a courageous dying, it is called effacement. That holy death unfurls our spirit’s wings and allows us to embrace God even as we stand on the earth.”
― Daniel Ladinsky, Love Poems from God: Inspirations from Twelve Sacred Voices of the East and West

“Whoever made this universe is a Wild Guy. I think only our ecstasies offer any real clues about him”
― Daniel Ladinsky, Love Poems from God: Inspirations from Twelve Sacred Voices of the East and West

“Christianity as a whole at times strikes me as a remarkably edited view of God...”
― Daniel Ladinsky, Love Poems from God: Inspirations from Twelve Sacred Voices of the East and West

“BECAUSE HE GAVE BIRTH So
precious
is a person’s faith in God,
so precious; never should we harm
that. Because
He gave birth
to all religions.”
― Daniel Ladinsky, Love Poems from God: Inspirations from Twelve Sacred Voices of the East and West