Quotes About Spirituality

But though the mass Be holy, yet the first-fruits God most loves.

All ways are byeways but the way of God, So broad, not thought a road.

Any heart turned Godward feels more joy In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not a numerical one.

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If I were called inTo construct a religionI should make use of water.

give me faith not religion...

When we find God in the world, We help the world.

I, too, have to end up worshipping at the altar where God's name is truth.

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words 'spiritual' or 'spirituality.' [Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

Our purpose in life is first to recognize God, then to understand His presence in our lives, and ultimately to achieve unity with His nature.

Our purpose in the world is to gain joy and fulfillment though unity with the Creator. This purpose never changes. It is unaffected by the material conditions of our lives, including the state of our health.

Tears shed with real sincerity foster an instant and powerful connection with the Creator. In a sense, they are an especially powerful kind of prayer that expresses itself beyond the limits of language.

we must simply develop our spiritual potential in order to escape the chaos of a purely empirical relationship with the universe.

Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.

John was not a logician, but a seer; not a reasoner, but a mystic; he does not argue, but assert; he arrives at conclusions with one bound, as by direct intuition.

As human beings, we are naturally driven by goals beyond physical satisfaction or mental supremacy to seek a deeper level of meaning and fulfilment.

The actual word 'spirituality' was first used in Christianity before it extended to other world religions where it is now used quite general.

For most people, whether religious or not, spirituality involves values and a principled lifestyle both of which are supported by specific spiritual practices including prayer or meditation.

By then it was more of an observation than a decision; it was less a matter of abandoning the faith than waking up to the fact that it had disappeared, quietly leaked away, as if there had been a small hole in my tank all along.

Occasionally we go on vacation to a place where there are no newspapers and no television. And when we return we find the world hasn't ended. We realize that even though following the news may be essential to making a living, it has little to do with living a spiritual life.

We made up our own religions and pretended they came from outside us.