God created us and gave us eternal life. He is beyond gender, but in human terms He is our Father and Mother.

You are an eternal soul and a child of God, and as such you will always be unconditionally loved by Him. It is impossible to fully describe the unconditional love that God feels for you in the words of this physical world.

God wants us to love Him and all of His creation the same way He loves us. Nothing pleases God more than this.

Teachers such as Jesus, the Buddha and the Prophet Muhammad incarnated into physical life to teach us how to love.

God does not expect us to behave with love in our hearts just because He said so, He expects us to understand and do this because it is the right thing to do.

In order to know God, we need to look for Him and do what He asks of us. We serve Him by following of the Golden Rule.

We can obey God without being religious. God and religion are independent of each other.

God will not interfere with the freewill that He gave us, so talking to Him is essential. We talk to God by praying. Although prayer is sometimes thought of as being ritualistic or formulaic communication, at its simplest level prayer is about talking to God in your own words. Talk to God from your heart.

You do not have to be religious to pray, but you do have to be loving and sincere. The focused and loving intention of prayer is very powerful, but God responds according to your best interests. He may not answer your prayers exactly as you wish, but He always listens.

It is OK to have fun and share a laugh with God! Your relationship with God should be a loving one, and that love can include fun and laughter. You should respect God as a parent, but that does not mean that you have to be solemn and somber when you talk to Him or think about Him.

You can talk to God without asking Him for anything!

God is VERY lovable once you get to know Him! If you think that it difficult to love God, remember that His love is the same as that of Jesus, who was loved more by the common people than possibly any other figure in history during His physical incarnation.

You require no knowledge of God or the Golden Rule to know the difference between right and wrong. This knowledge is an instinctive and intuitive part of you. What is “right” is loving behavior, and “wrong” is unloving behavior.

In the words of the Bible, and in particular through Jesus, God said "I desire mercy, not sacrifice." Mercy is about how we treat others, and sacrifice is about how we treat ourselves. God wants us to forgive each other and be compassionate, gentle and kind, rather than have us look inwardly to punish ourselves or pay some kind of penance for our mistakes.

God asks us to love Him. Loving God is not the same as praising or fearing Him. God knows that there will be times when we are filled with conflicting emotions about Him and His existence. At times, many of us doubt Him, or get angry or frustrated with Him. All relationships challenge us in ways that help us to grow if we choose, and our relationship with God is no different.

Praising and worshipping God out of habit or custom is a waste of time, particularly since God knows what is in our heart and we cannot appeal to His ego! Showing our love for God by doing His will is a much better use of our time.

It is very important to understand that God’s love is unconditional. It is unrelated to our religion, behavior or beliefs. His love is not based on a contract we make with Him in which we profess certain beliefs. We should try to trust that His love is not based on what we believe or how we behave, nor will it ever be.

It is very difficult to understand how much God loves us, because most of us are so bad at giving unconditional love to ourselves and others. The concept of unconditional love is almost meaningless to some of us.

God gave us freewill so that we could willingly choose how to participate in His creation. He will not interfere with our freewill, but we do not have the freewill to escape His perfect creation. We have eternal life whether we like it or not.

Our happiness and the speed of our evolution as souls is our own decision, because we have the freewill to choose whether to be loving or unloving.

Inappropriate use of freewill causes us pain and suffering. It is tempting to blame God for this suffering because He did not intervene and stop it. However, without the freewill to make mistakes we would not learn. You should try to see suffering as a learning experience in a very brief physical incarnation which is part of an eternal life.

Some suffering is willingly accepted by very advanced souls who are innocent but agree to incarnate and suffer. They do this in order to teach less advanced souls the meaning of unconditional love.

God always unconditionally forgives us. However, repentance is still necessary. Authentic repentance is very powerful. When you regret an unloving thought or action you take responsibility for it, and you know that you made a mistake, feel remorse, and learned a lesson. When you repent, you should forgive yourself too because you no longer need carry the weight of your guilt. Repentance means that you are learning to love. Being unrepentant is a barrier to your growth as a soul.

God's unconditional forgiveness does not free us from the eternal need to evolve by growing our ability to love. As souls, we will always be expected to follow the Golden Rule.

God does not provide recommendations or advice, He commands.

As a soul, you generally maintain the level of soul growth you have achieved, and do not regress. However, your character does not become perfect because your body dies.

You cannot live a life of deliberately unloving acts because you expect God to forgive you and make you equal to those who try to obey Him. God established a perfect system of justice, and your place in His infinite creation is dependent on how loving you are, not whether you have been forgiven.

Unfortunately, many religious people make the mistake of thinking that because God forgives our mistakes, when our bodies die we are automatically admitted into some kind of homogeneous heaven, where every soul is equal. The reality is that the afterlife contains a sliding scale of environments, and where we end up depends on how we have used our freewill to grow through love. This means that we are in control of our salvation, and our place in God’s creation.

We each have a personal relationship directly with God. We do not need intermediaries to intervene or manage that relationship for us, but other souls can petition God (pray) for us.

A loving relationship with God benefits all your other relationships.

There is no place for fear in your relationship with God. If you fear someone it is difficult to love them. God created you, He loves you, and He has given you eternal life.

You can use your freewill to reject God, but He will never reject you if you reach out to Him.

God knows that He is more difficult to understand than His message, which is buried in everybody’s subconscious, regardless of belief or lack of it. Love God as well as you can, and in your daily reality practice loving yourself and your neighbor. As you practice love, you will find that your understanding and acceptance of what God wants of you will strengthen your love for God.

If you have true unconditional love for other souls and yourself, you love God. This is because we are all connected. When you give love you are loving God as well, because we are all part of the same whole. Loving God, yourself, and others are three facets of the same relationship.

It is possible to love God and each other without participating in religion. Your understanding of who and what God is can take many forms without hindering your growth, as long as you follow the Golden Rule and develop along the lines of unconditional love.

If you live your life according to the Golden Rule and with love in your heart, your recognition of God as your Father is not an absolute requirement for your growth as a soul. However, most of us struggle to live the Golden Rule. The failure to develop a relationship with God and ask for His help may be a significant handicap to your growth.

Many people who deny or ignore God have not given Him much thought, and are not motivated to do so. They may have been prejudiced by flawed religious teaching and practice in their childhood, and never again tried to challenge the assumptions on which their religious prejudices are based. These people are ignoring or subverting the impulse we all have to discover the meaning of life.

There is danger in comparing yourself to others in the hope that you meet God’s standard by viewing yourself as “better”. You cannot judge others accurately.

A great way to learn about God is to use love-based behavior as the measure of your spiritual development.

God has given you the freewill to choose to reject Him. He will never reject you, and will welcome you with open arms if you ever change your mind. All you have to do is talk to Him, and ask for His help.

37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Matthew 22

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Two men please God--who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Nikita Ivanovich Panin

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

St Augustine

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

True discrimination between right and wrong does not then depend on the acuteness of our intelligence, but on the wisdom of the Spirit.

John Calvin on Luke 24:16

It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.

Carl von Clausewitz

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

Josiah Holland

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

C. G. Jung

To say I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Thomas A Kempis

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: It is the megaphone to rouse a deaf world...

C S Lewis, in 'The Problem of Pain'

Hell is a state of being we create by being away from God until we choose to return to him. It is a state totally devoid of love.

Sandra Rogers

Never try to explain God until you have obeyed Him. The only bit of God we understand is the bit we have obeyed.

​Unknown

If you understand, things are just as they are if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

Zen proverb

Many people who have suffered the most horrendous rejections and been subject to the most cruel torture are able to choose love. By choosing love they become witnesses not only to enormous human resiliency but also to the divine love that transcends all human loves. Those who choose, even on a small scale, to love in the midst of hatred and fear are the people who offer true hope to our world.

Henri Nouwen

The reality is that God, in the form of Christ and according to the Bible, gave no quarter for argument. His teachings never used the words "should" or "may" or "could" or "ought to". They all used the word "Shall" which leaves no room for discussion or dissension.

John Cannon

The little voice inside us that prompts us to do good things comes from God. It is the light of love inside each of us.

Kerry Kirk

God doesn't force anyone to heaven, hell, or anywhere. We are free to choose and build our destiny. All paths lead back to God.

Edgar Cayce

God perfectly understands our lack of knowledge. He knows that most of us do not remember our commitments to him. In his eyes we are like little children: susceptible and even expected to make mistakes.

Betty Eadie

Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all.

Catherine Marshall (Christy, 1967)

God does not care about theology. God cares mostly about your heart.

Rev. Howard Storm

It doesn't matter what you call God. The different religions have different ways of explaining the same God.

Mellen-Thomas Benedict

God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?

Criss Jami

God is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

H. L. Mencken

A part of me began to anticipate certain events, things in my life I would dread seeing again. But most of them didn't show up, and I understood that I had taken responsibility for these actions and had repented of them. I saw myself repenting of them, sincerely wanting God to remove the weight and guilt of those terrible actions. And He had. I marveled at His sublime love and that my misdeeds could be forgiven and removed so easily.

RaNelle Wallace

I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love and at this hour millions of people would die for Him.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone.

Shannon Alder

Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Matthew 22:37-39

If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him. It will always be right and best. When He gives you a directive, you are not just to observe it, discuss it, or debate it. You are to obey it.

Henry Blackaby

God waits for you to communicate with Him. You have instant, direct access to God. God loves mankind so much, and in a very special sense His children, that He has made Himself available to you at all times.

Wesley L. Duewel

God carries your picture in His wallet.

Tony Campolo

God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it given that it creates freedom in the recipient, so that our response is not one of obligation or duty, nor the returning of a favor, but uncoerced love.

Mark Galli