Guest guest Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 108 Quotations on Faith in God >From Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Divine Discourses - 50 - To enable your prayers to reach God you have to affix the stamp of 'faith' and address it with 'love' If you have faith and love, your prayers will reach God regardless of distance. You must see that your love for God is pure and unsullied. You must be prepared to subject yourself to God's rests. The sooner you pass these rests, the nearer you will get to God. There can be no spiritual advance without going through these rests. Students should be aware that for going to a higher class they have to pass the prescribed rests. In life, you are tested as to how much you are attached to the ephemeral things of the world and how much you yearn for the Divine. If your love for God is a tiny fraction of your love for mundane things, how do you expect God to shower His grace on you? (Svaami sang a song of Jayadeva in which he exhorts men to devote at least a fraction of the time they spend on their possessions and family to contemplation of God who will come to their rescue at the time of death). How much more sacred it would be if men thought about God even for a few moments out of the many hours they waste on thinking about worldly things? People should develop their faith in this truth. Whatever faith they have in themselves that faith they should have in God. That is the mark of greatness. One who has no faith in himself, how can he have faith in God? Turn your faith away from the temporal and the transient to the unchanging eternal reality. The power of faith is illustrated in an incident from the life of Christ. Once a blind man approached Jesus and prayed: "Lord! Restore my sight." Jesus asked him: "Do you believe that I can restore your sight unhesitatingly: "Yes, Lord!If that is so, then open your eyes and see it," said Jesus. The blind man opened his eyes and got his sight. Likewise, people pray to Svaami to give something or other. Do you believe that I have the power to give what you seek? My response is dependent on your faith. – Sri Sathya Sai Baba Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Divine Discourse on 7.10.1997Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume XXX, Chapter 20: Significance of Ganesha Principle,Section: Prayers and tests.Online: http://sathyasai.org/search/volume30/sss30-20.pdf New and Improved Mail - Send 10MB messages! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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