Quotes About Spirituality

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.

My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

If you become a monk because it's an easy life, because you're going to be fed, and sheltered and people will respect you, then that is not a very meritorious motivation.

I do think that someone who decides to devote themselves entirely to the spiritual life, that that is more meritorious.

It's unlikely that you were a frog in a past life.

Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life is all about.

I am conscious of eternal life.

The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.

Each of our temples is an expression of our testimony that life beyond the grave is as real and as certain as is our life here on earth.

The Book of Mormon changes lives.

I recommended meditation to every person as a foundation for living healthier, being a more loving person, and leading a less stressful life!

Say nothing of the new life you have begun or of the experiment you are making and experiences you expect to have. All this is a matter between God and you, and only between you two.

At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage.

Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.