Quotes About Spirituality

The lure of the various isms, though hardly unknown to religious people, may be even more intense for those who avoid religion.

Good worship will strive for height.

But authentic worship also has depth.

Practicing the presence of God is not getting more of God; it is becoming aware of, enjoying, and resonating with the unbroken union we already have in Jesus.

What thing is so pleasant, and what so profitable, as to talk of the things of God?

Who would true valor see,Let him come hither;One here will constant be,Come wind, come weather.There's no discouragementShall make him once relentHis first avow'd intentTo be a pilgrim.

Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that. What is the West but a gigantic supermarket? And who really wants to die for a supermarket?

You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't do big harm. You prostitute your mind. Mind is seat of Buddha. What you do is very very bad. You should not use your mind in that way

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.

The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.

I am moonlighting for the Buddha.

To make a good death is to proceed gracefully into a better body and a better life. The consequences of a bad death are hard to look at. You will not make a good death is a power curse; it makes Fuck you sound like a benediction.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

I've noticed that there is danger in spending all this time writing about those "publicans and sinners" over there in the great and spacious building. If our spot near the tree of life becomes a Rameumptom where we congratulate each other on our chosen-ness and look down on everyone else, then we're occupying nothing more than a branch office of the great and spacious.

I feel confident that the Lord will not leave us alone in making this major decision, and we can expect to be guided, even if we don't realize it at the time.