Quotes About Spirituality

Behind me, field and meadow sleeping, I leave in deep, prophetic night, Within whose dread and holy keeping The better soul awakes to light. The wild desires no longer win us, The deeds of passion cease to chain; The love of Man revives within us, The love of God revives again.

PATER SERAPHICUS. Higher rise, still higher, growing Stronger imperceptibly, Near the Divine Presence gaining A more perfect purity! What is it the spirit thrives on, What fills the ethereal space? Endless love whose revelation Blitheness brings, eternal bliss.

When he is by, I could not pray to Heaven.

Jesus felt pure and calmly thought Only the One God; Who made him to be a god Offends his holy will. And thus the rightness has to shine What Muhammad also achieved; Only by the term of the One He mastered the whole world

ach, kon je dat maar weer uitdrukken, kon je het papier inblazen wat zo overdadig leeft; zodat het de spiegel werd van je ziel, zoals je ziel de spiegel is van de oneindige God! – Mijn vriend — Maar ik ga er aan te gronde, ik bezwijk onder het geweld van de pracht van wat ik zie.

Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful.

Tanr?sal ruhlar?n dola?t??? bu dudaklara bir öpücük kondurmaya hiçbir zaman cesaret etmeyece?im!

Ey tan?mad???m Yarat?c?! Bir zamanlar tüm ruhumu sarm??t?n, ama ?imdi bana yüz çevirdin! Ça??r beni yan?na! ..

Surely the gestures of murmuring priests must contain some deep meaning

Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, hat auch Religion; wer jene beiden nicht besitzt, der habe Religion.

Non esiste al mondo gioia così intensa e genuina come il vedere una grande anima schiudersi a qualcuno.

When God created us, he founded His living nature for our home; But you sit in this gloom, surrounded By mildred skull and arid bone.

Ey varl???n?n derinli?ine asla eremedi?im Yüce Tanr?'m! Ruhum seninle doluyken çoktan beridir neden senden uzak durdum?.. Beni yan?na al! Daha fazla bekletme! Katlan?lmaz bir özlemle tutu?an ruhumun art?k gücü tükendi.

La fantasia è un dono di Dio, dissi, perchè ho potuto credere, per un momento, che quelle parole fossero dirette a me.

What is holy? It is what binds many souls together, even if it only bound lightly, as the rush binds the wreath. What is the holiest? That which, today and forever, felt more and more deeply, makes spirits more and more united.

Through an intuitive perception of eternally creative nature we may become worthy of participating spiritually in its creative process

God can be worshipped in no more beautiful way than by the spontaneous welling up from one's breast of mutual converse with Nature.

para mí los goces del espíritu consisten en un libro, en un hoja, en una página; sólo los libros pueden hacernos soportable y hasta deliciosa una larga noche de invierno, y hacernos llevar una dichosa vida que reanime todos nuestros miembros.

Je höher ein Mensch,« sagte Goethe, »desto mehr steht er unter dem Einfluß der Dämonen, und er muß nur immer aufpassen, daß sein leitender Wille nicht auf Abwege gerate.« "The higher a man is," said Goethe, "the more he is under the influence of demons, and he must take heed lest his guiding will counsel him to a wrong path".

Des Menschen Seele Gleicht dem Wasser: Vom Himmel kommt es, Zum Himmel steigt es, Und wieder nieder Zur Erde muss es. Ewig wechselnd.

Was der Mensch als Gott verehrt, ist sein eigenstes Innere herausgekehrt.

Das Wahre, mit dem Göttlichen identisch, läßt sich niemals von uns direkt erkennen, wir schauen es nur im Abglanz, im Beispiel, Symbol, in einzelnen und verwandten Erscheinungen; wir werden es gewahr als unbegreifliches Leben und können dem Wunsch nicht entsagen, es dennoch zu begreifen.

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.