Quotes About Spirituality

Uno de los dones de Dios para nosotros es el ejercicio físico que libera endorfinas y tranquiliza las emociones, calma los sufrimientos y mejora nuestro estado de ánimo.

La práctica de analizar mi día con Dios se arraiga en las antiguas prácticas cristianas del examen de estado de conciencia (revisar el día pasado para percibir la presencia de Dios) y del examen de conciencia (notar mi respuesta, o falta de ella, a esa presencia).

Las prácticas de la soledad y el silencio resultan radicales porque nos desafían en cada nivel de nuestra existencia.

Practicing rhythms of silence and words, stillness and action, helps us learn to wait on God--which doesn't come easily for those of us accustomed to busily trying to make things happen.

There is the tension between being and doing, community and cause

God works miracles of transformation in the world through miraculously transformed people.

But times of solitude and silence are not times for judging. They are times for noticing — noticing what is true about us in a given moment and then being in God's presence with the things we've noticed.

study of Scripture is important, but if we stop there, we will eventually hit a wall spiritually. Information

It is a sobering thing to ask ourselves this question: Have I learned enough about how to wait on God in my own life to be able to call others to wait when that is what's truly needed? Have I done enough spiritual journeying to lead people on this part of their journey?

We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself.

Psalm 46: 10 tells us there is a kind of knowing that comes in silence and not in words-but first we must be still. The Hebrew word translated "Be still" literally means "Let go of your grip.

God, gather me5 to be with you as you are with me. Keep me in touch with myself, with my needs, my anxieties, my angers, my pains, my corruptions, that I may claim them as my own rather than blame them on someone else. O Lord, deepen my wounds into wisdom; shape my weaknesses into compassion; gentle my envy into enjoyment, my fear into trust, my guilt into honesty. O God, gather me to be with you as you are with me.

Holy One, there is something I wanted to tell you, but there have been errands to run, bills to pay, meetings to attend, washing to do ... and I forget what it is I wanted to say to you, and forget what I am about or why. Oh God, don't forget me please, for the sake of Jesus Christ.

good. Over time, as we surrender ourselves to new life rhythms, they help us to surrender old behaviors, attitudes and practices so that we can be shaped by new ones.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

Incarnation is an empty glass.

The thing I always found about the gospel music was that it reached further into your being if you like, your mind. It takes hold of you - especially if you sing it and play it.

Free will: Either God partially controls our free wills, or God entirely controls our free wills, but I guarantee you that we don't always have control of our free wills.

My soul is to just for this world, that is why I must die young and go to Heaven for eternity.

Somehow, it seemed the Jedi had failed to grasp that the Force was grander and farther reaching than even they understood it to be.

Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.