Quotes About Spirituality

The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.

Lockington said, "'Use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking.'" She clapped her hands. "Oh, that's excellent! Who said it?" "My father—he used it twenty times a day." "It sounds almost biblical." "It is biblical—it's the only verse my old man ever memorized.

Estamos mais dispostos a ler sobre guerras e escândalos do que a ler a Bíblia: deleitamo-nos muito mais nos problemas.

É melhor viver em meio aos problemas com o Deus triúno do que viver na opulência doentia de sonhos gerados pelo pecado original.

Laws cannot make men good: that is the work of the Holy Spirit. But laws can prevent men from doing evil.

Man as an Idea in neoplatonist religion is again an abstraction, less a monster and more a bad joke. The religious idea of man is of a bodiless being who works to undo his flesh, deny his appetites, and to rise above the ordinary requirements of the body. This abstraction has a horror of the material world as a kind of fatal allure seeking to corrupt his soul. But no man finds himself more beset by lust than the man who tries to deny he is a man.

Mysticism is always incapable of dealing with the problems of culture because it is a denial of their validity.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

Henri de Lubac, one of the most outstanding Roman Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, put it with a clarity and brevity very hard to improve upon: 'It is not sincerity, it is truth which frees us… To seek sincerity above all things is perhaps, at bottom, not to want to be transformed.

Becoming holy is being so taken over by the extraordinariness of God that that is what you are really interested in, and that is what radiates from you to reflect on other people.

What right has a non-worldly, a discarnate, God to forgive any human being? … he is not to be found, his grace and mercy are not to be found, anywhere but in the past of human violence.

Without silence, we will not get any closer to knowing who we are before God.

This life of utter givenness to God and the other, the neighbour, is already a life that death cannot contain.

It is on the inward condition that the outer reality depends.

Live with inspired purpose and empowering enthusiasm. You are an immortal, spiritual being; live as you are meant to live.

The truth is, the human condition does not become spiritual; when conditions are ideal, our spiritual nature awakens and blossoms, allowing us to clearly apprehend that we are but using mind and body while the reality of us, our spiritual nature, remains ever what it is. At the innermost core of our being we are individualized (though not independent) units of the omnipresent consciousness of God.

The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives.

Religion deals with the highest levels of meaning. As a result, it can interpret each life or each event in a context that runs from the beginning of time to future eternity. Religion is thus uniquely capable of offering high-level meaning to human life. Religion may not always be the best way to make life meaningful, but it is probably the most reliable way.

ambulance. "At the end I started to think I was in purgatory. I genuinely believed that I was being judged, and that this was a place I was waiting to go to heaven or hell. Those last eight hours were the worst state I've ever been in. To go through something that horrific and not quit—that took something that was beyond me.

Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.

For twelve hundred years Mullahs have been writing proofs of the existence of God. Believe me, I've taught theology for a long time - none of them is real proof. The only real proof can come through illumination.

Willingness to conform to Islamic law, even in the face of doubt, spiritual aridity, and dark nights of the soul, is the mark of a serious Muslim.