Quotes About Spirituality

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.

In meditation we experience the silence from which all creativity springs. The act of creation—whether from a blank page to a poem, an empty space to a building, a thought to a song or film—starts with a void. The more intimate a relationship we can build with that silent void, the more clearly the art can shine through and spring forth. Meditation is the vehicle to connect to that silence." —Rick Rubin, Malibu 2013

I don't believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God's way of communicating with us.

The more we have sought self-fulfillment, self-actualization, self-awareness, and self-esteem, the more we have distanced ourselves from the ones who can teach us who we really are. We have failed to recognize that as our ties to our earthly parents have unraveled, so have our ties to our heavenly parents. (Chapter 6)

God gives me all the willingness I need today to sit quietly and listen. from Time for Joy

September 8 Today I pray for the knowledge of God's will for me and then follow my inner guidance. I choose to make my thoughts and actions align with peace and love.

Yet there are times in life when God gently draws us back to our places of pain and invites us to take another look. He does not call us back to aggravate our wounds or cause us emotional harm. When God calls, he calls with good purpose; and when he urges us back to a hard place, he does so in order to heal us. Only then can we truly move on.

At times the strength of spiritual community lies in the love of people who refrain from getting caught in the trap of trying to fix everything for us, who pray for us and allow us the pain of our wilderness, our wants, so that we may be more deeply grounded in God. ROSEMARY DOUGHERTY

waiting on God to move or to shift something inside me while at the same time still needing to lead in the public arena.

There are times when a leader's deepest longing is to hear a word from the Lord. Beyond the muddle of all of our thoughts and ideas and brainstorming sessions, we long for an encounter with God that will penetrate all of that and bring some clarity to our situation.

spiritual transformation is central to the message of the gospel and therefore central to the mission of the church.

None of us exists in this world apart from being one gender or another, and in fact our existence as male and female is one of the most complete ways God has revealed the diverse aspects of his own being.

El silencio nos ayuda a bucear por debajo de la superficialidad de nuestras construcciones mentales hasta el lugar de nuestro corazón, que resulta más profundo en cuanto a su realidad, que cualquier cosa que la mente pueda captar o expresar en palabras.

What shapes our actions is basically what shapes our desire. Desire makes us act and when we act what we do will either lead to a greater integration or disintegration within our personalities, minds, and bodies - and to the strengthening or deterioration of our relationship to God, others, and the world. The habits and disciplines we use to shape our desire form the basis for a spirituality.

Discernment, in a most general sense, is the capacity to recognize and respond to the presence and the activity of God—both in the ordinary moments and in the larger decisions of our lives.

it is possible to hang around other Christians a lot, meet regularly for worship, study our Bibles, join a church and even call ourselves a community but not change at all in ways that count.

Cuando Elías entró en la soledad y el silencio, una de las primeras cosas que debió tener en cuenta fue lo cansado, lo agotado que se encontraba a todo nivel.

la historia de Elías me invitó a dejar de intentar combatir el cansancio y rendirme a él en la presencia del Señor.

Pero los tiempos de soledad y silencio no son tiempos para emitir juicios con respecto nuestra conducta. Son tiempos para darnos cuenta, para descubrir, la verdad sobre nosotros mismos en un momento dado, y entonces presentarnos a Dios con todo aquello que hemos notado.

Cuando incorporamos el descanso al tiempo que pasamos a solas con Dios, llegamos a experimentar un tipo de renovación muy profunda.

Cuando eso sucede, pierdo contacto con aquel lugar del centro de mi ser que me da conciencia acerca de quién soy en Dios, en el que descubro lo que he sido llamada a hacer, y donde puedo responder a su voz privilegiándola por sobre todas las otras voces. Cuando eso sucede, estoy a merced de todo tipo de fuerzas externas, llevada de aquí para allá por otras expectativas y por mis propias compulsiones.

Without a balanced approach to spiritual disciplines, we run the risk of cultivating a one-sided spirituality that will disintegrate under pressure from the part of us we have left undeveloped.

El aprender a descansar en Dios en los tiempos de soledad comienza con el cuerpo, como la imagen del niño amamantado lo sugiere. Esta imagen me lleva a los momentos llenos de suavidad y ternura de mis primeros tiempos como madre.

Dios sabe cuánto necesitamos nosotros estar juntos «más allá de las palabras». Por eso es que espera con paciencia que dejemos de movernos agitadamente y nos relajemos para poder recibir la nutrición de su presencia.