Quotes About Spirituality

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

John defined a society as "a company of men having the form and seeking the power of godliness, united in order to pray together, to receive the word of exhortation, and to watch over one another in love, that they may help each other work out their salvation.

Do not intend to make a buddha.…

We've come into this life fully equipped as a buddha, an awakened being, and we'll go out fully equipped as a buddha, realized or not.

Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures, no reliance on words and letters, a direct pointing to the human mind, the realization of Buddhahood.

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you begin to realize that The Mountains and Rivers Sutra is not a sutra about mountains and rivers, but rather that the mountains and rivers are themselves the sutra.

We can't go far in morality before realizing that right is a relative thing and that those who disagree with us may be striving for it as earnestly as we are ourselves. It is the spirit that counts.

Your life belongs to what you have awakened to.

Everyone is called to live their lives right now in the kingdom of God, to practice now as if they were already in the fullness of the presence of the God of peace. As we do, we will reject every form of violence, from war and executions to racism and sexism to nuclear weapons and corporate greed to destructive behavior to the creatures and Mother Earth.

My faith will proclaim it is so - we are never alone.

Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.

we are not "the People of the Book." We are "the People with the Book," but even more importantly, we are "the People of the Person.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.

Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear.

Since I am coming to that holy room,Where, with thy choir of saints forevermore,I shall be made thy music; as I comeI tune the instrument here at the door,And what I must do then, think here before.

Our two souls therefore which are one,Though I must go, endure not yetA breach, but an expansion,Like gold to airy thinness beat.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and IDid, till we lov'd? were we not wean'd till thenBut suck'd on country pleasures, childishly?Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for youAs yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend.

As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.