Quotes About Spirituality

Don't call me Naomi, which means pleasant. But call me Miriam, which means bitterness. I will weep, and I will not be comforted, for the Lord God hath dealt bitterly with me." She would light a candle to Mary, Esther decided.

When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.

Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.

As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life.

Your attitude toward others, work, and your daily life is a reflection of your attitude toward God.

God's Word is the ultimate beauty treatment for every woman.

God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. What is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

There's a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that's how the light of God gets in.

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her. If anyone had asked her what she meant by integrity she would not have been able to tell them but she had seen it once like a picture in her mind, a root going down into the earth and drinking deeply there. No one was really alive without that root.

If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of effort and to remain curiously indifferent as to the results.

The God who had thrust him through in the darkness with probings of dread and shame was the same God who now held out the sword and shield.

In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.

There are three necessary prayers and they have three words each. They are these, 'Lord have mercy. Thee I adore. Into Thy hands.' Not difficult to remember. If in times of distress you hold to these you will do well.

Though I am able to do nothing else in this life, except only seek, my life seeming to others a vie manquee, yet it will not be so, because what I seek is the goodness of God that waters the dry places. And water overflows from one dry patch to another, and so you cannot be selfish in digging for it.

Love, and nothing else, was eternal. "Love is the Lord by whom we escape death.

He sat for a long time and thought to himself that he wished he knew how to pray, yet he knew, untaught, how by abandonment of himself to let the quietness take hold of him.

Life was full of these intuitions that one must get smaller, go further in. The golden box was so deeply within that it was hard to find, yet it contained an entire country and was, she supposed, the only luggage one could take with one if there was anywhere to go beyond death.

A close union with the earth seemed to involve one in unison with a good deal more than the earth.

Perhaps she had not understood the heights to which prayer must rise before it becomes pure praise, the fortitude that is demanded before it can share in the redemption of man's soul. The man of prayer beside her had said it was action, the greatest activity there is. She began to believe him.