Quotes About Spirituality

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next.

This holiday season I learned the vue if presence over presents.

Anyone looking for the holy land might best begin with the earth that sustains us.

Holding hands together with my family and fellow travelers as the earth circled our little star coursing through the heavens, I felt two things more profoundly perhaps than ever before: We are one, and we are blessed.

Then what is the purpose of a church?" the others kept asking.

A religion is not contained in a single book; there's something religious in almost any book.

wisdom from the world's religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life." Among other things, it reminds us to be humble, especially when we are sure we are right.

If God is inside us, our neighbor is inside us as well, not only inside us, but also among us, between us, intertwined with us, never apart.

WE ONLY KNOW two things for certain: "I am," and "I will die." Religion is our response. Whether it is spoken or unspoken, conscious or unconscious, inherited or chosen, we all have a religion of some sort or another, for religion is not merely a matter of belief or affiliation. It is a matter of how we chose to live.

Ours is a non-creedal church—not because we have no beliefs, but because we will not be restrained in our beliefs.

One reason that so many people today say, "I believe in spirituality, but not in religion," is that the products of the human spirit, the various religious traditions, can so easily become warring sects if not brought within a wider, more reasoned perspective. Unitarian Universalism offers the opportunity not only to deepen one's personal spirituality through dialogue, but to do so in a context where "the guidance of reason and the results of science" are honored.

The standard definition of God, "God is light," is just a simple way of saying that God is energy. Electromagnetic energy. He is not a He but an It; a field of energy that permeates the entire universe and, perhaps, feeds off the energy generated by its component parts.

If you had dared to suggest one hundred years ago that God and the devil were in cahoots, you would he invited to attend a barbecue in the public square, and you would be the barbecuee. But today it is apparent that the same force that answers some prayers also causes it to rain anchovies and is behind everything from sea serpents to flying saucers. It distorts our reality whimsically, perhaps out of boredom, or perhaps because it is a little crazy. God may be a crackpot.

My experience as an Episcopal priest led me to believe that I would never want to suffer the way I saw so many people die: in isolation, abandoned and with great existential suffering. I would never want to be in an intensive care unit, hooked up to all kinds of machines.

Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.

Friendship with children increases their love for God.

If the holiness of God is not perceived and understood, then the entire work and conduct of God are not grasped.'29

I thank Thee, O Lord, that Thou hast so set eternity within my heart that no earthly thing can ever satisfy me wholly.

My heart an altar, and Thy love the flame.