Quotes About Spirituality

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.

Divine grace, Caravaggio shows us, is not reserved for the rich and powerful, but falls equally on the poor and humble.

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

that to trust in a God, a Jesus, the Holy Spirit—this last a completely superfluous entity, it was there only to make up a trinity, notoriously nobler than the mere binomial father-son—was the same thing as collecting trading cards while the city burns in the fires of hell.

but she won't let him finish his scolding; she'll throw her arms of water around his neck; she will show him her necklaces of small, blue shells, so tender they resemble children's eyelids as they sleep, and of hard shells that look like the teeth of killer fish. Or she'll tell him that god has made nature not only to look upon but also so that we may live in her, and that each person has his own wave, and won't he please choose his.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone—terribly alone in a world without God and without man.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

Think higher, feel deeper.

Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.

God is the light bulb, to where faith is the light switch.

The Orthodox Church, as did the early Christians, does not separate the personal from the communal. We do not confuse "personal" with "individual." Our personal relationship with Jesus is anchored on our communal relationship to the Church as the nurturing and soul-sustaining Body of Christ.

We can consider our church attendance a failure if we do not experience this emotion.

You cannot wait to be in the mood of prayer; you have to use the spur of your Prayer Rule to force yourself to pray," as Sergei Fudel writes in his excellent book Light in the Darkness.[xliii

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair, "said G.K. Chesterton.

Again, as wine when drunk helps to put an end to our sorrow and brings gladness to the heart, so also the spiritual wine brings joy to the soul. - St. John Chrysostom

It is intellectually and spiritually incoherent to believe in the innocent play of children when you are willing to sacrifice them upon the altar of your ambition, your avarice, your lusts, or your convenience. You cannot suppress the reality of the child without amputating your humanity and searing the wound with bitumen and pitch. The

To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.

Somethingism is better than nihilism.

Sin is more than a stain that can be removed by a trip to the dry cleaner. It is a wound that needs to be treated, healed.