Quotes About Spirituality

Grant that when this day concludes and the Earth turns slowly outward to gaze into the night of space, I may bring a harvest of light and love as my gift to you.

You who alone know the secrets of hearts, look with love upon my feeble attempts at silent prayer. I am grateful that you do not measure my effort but look only upon my love for you.

Lord, crown our faith's endeavor with beauty and with grace, till, clothed in light forever, we see thee face to face: a joy no language measures; a fountain brimming o'er; an endless flow of pleasures; an ocean without shore.

I dreamed that I floated at will in the great Ether, and I saw this world floating also not far off, but diminished to the size of an apple. Then an angel took it in his hand and brought it to me and said, "This must thou eat." And I ate the world. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

These poems have come from a great distance to find you. I think of Malebranche's maxim, "Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul.

I wish I could believe in the otherworld I wish I could believe in a place Of reunions outside of memory

immorality, materialism, and godlessness.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing—detachment. —MEISTER ECKHART

to be Thine evermore; youth mingled with thy youth, Age with thine age; in thy grave mine; above, Spirit beside thy spirit; - this the love God teacheth man to pray for!

We are meant to be addicted to God, but we develop secondary addictions that temporarily appear to fix our problem.

Render your body to them" his father had taught, "but know your soul belongs to God.

Only in a secular history where men and women are freed for unexpected true humanity can God reveal his own being.

For 'the human' is a medium of possible divine revelation.

The Gospel of Matthew declares, "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." An early Chinese Daoist text, the Daodejing or Laozi, compares the perfected sage to an infant or small child, perfectly open and receptive to the world.

When God and spirituality are reduced to our standards or our feelings, God will never be to us the awesome Holy One of Israel. With God reduced in our eyes, a fear of people will thrive.

Faith feels many different ways. It can be buoyant; it can be depressed and lifeless. Feelings don't define faith. Instead, faith is simply turning to the Lord.

People are most similar to God when he is the object of their affection. People should delight in God, as he does in himself.

The goddesses that dwell Far along invisible Are my favorite gods.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." ~ Rumi

When you learn to find in God what you seek for in the world, freedom's bell is rung!

The person of God walks the edge; one side virtue, the other, vice.

If you want peace and not sorrow... if you want joy and not pain, say yes to God first. Then the problems of the world will fade away. You won't care about them. You won't worry about them. Because you'll have something far greater to take their place

Those who know God, know eternity. Those who know eternity know salvation because they know death does not exist. Here is the ultimate freedom to be found. To find it, all you have to do is let go.

Where is freedom? asks the student. 'In God' replies the teacher. For it is only here we can taste the eternal and the eternal is the only thing that is free.