Quotes About Spirituality

People who believe in buried gods,' said Louis. 'Do you believe in buried gods, Detective Walsh?' 'I'm Episcopalian. I believe in everything.

Whether his prayers were in vain or not, he didn't care. It was the effort that counted. But he knew that, somewhere, those prayers were being heard.

knew that his God—for each man has his own God—let him wander there sometimes, perhaps with the ghost of one of the many dogs that had kept him company through his life yapping at his heels, flushing the birds from the rushes and chasing them for the joy of it. My grandfather used to say that if God did not allow a

I'm Episcopalian. I believe in everything.

the seventeenth-century saint, Margaret Marie Alacoque, a French nun of Parayle-Monial, who founded the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Margaret would deliberately eat cheese knowing that it made her vomit, and by her own admission she ate the vomit of sister nuns.

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

The world is not made of bread and honey…nor of the sweet flesh of girls. This world is made of clouds and of the shadows of clouds. It is made of mental landscapes, porous as air, where men and women are as trees walking, and as reeds shaken by the wind.

Let go into His arms untill you find yourself obsessed with things devine

Let your days become a fragrant song where heaven and earth continually collide

How can we lead the blind, if we are blind ourselves? His wine is coming to blur our vision, so that we can receive His vision.

We are now passively growing in this love, but understand that you already fully possess love as a believer. How is this so? Because God is Love. …

What is God drunk on? Your love.

God didn't come to fix anybody. He came to kill them and resurrect them from the dead.

The person of Jesus is not simply a door into experience, He is the destination.

Can one truly get closer to God? Has Christ only brought us part way? Consider the analogy of a vine and a branch. It is impossible for a branch to grow any closer to the vine than it already is. The two are physically connected. There is no breach that is progressively being filled. Now, does the branch continue to grow? Yes! It even flourishes, buds and bears fruit. But is it growing toward union, or because of union?

What does this mean? Believe you are full, thanks to Christ, and you will be what you really are … full! As

A complacent satisfaction in God may cause you to accidentally outwork all your religious friends.

Let go into His arms until you find yourself obsessed on things divine

The Chinese, you know, believe that deep within each of us, no larger than the ball of your thumb, is the garden of the immortals, the great valley where we are all king forever.

George MacDonald, Andrew Jackson Davis, Swedenborg.

En ciel un dieu, en terre une déesse

Such religion is Churchianity; it is not Christianity. Christianity means the religion where Christ is all; Churchianity, the religion where the Church is all.

would you rather stand before God as a learned theologian who is full of pride or an unlearned man with a head full of superstition who worships in spirit and in truth?