Quotes About Spirituality

Does this mean that these people are upset with or even angry at the institution of the church? Not necessarily. When asked why they no longer attend church, many unchurched felt that it simply wasn't that important, while 34 percent said they were just too busy.5 And many others are looking elsewhere for answers to their questions about spiritual matters because they believe the church is answering questions that most of them aren't asking.

After a person has discovered his divine design, it will lead to God's direction for his life.

The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.

When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.

I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren't alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Necesitamos aprender del Maestro de Nazaret a hacer un «aseo general» en el templo de nuestro interior. Volcar la «mesa» de los pensamientos negativos. Extirpar el «comercio» del miedo y de la inseguridad. Reciclar nuestra rigidez y evaluar la superficialidad con que reaccionamos ante los eventos de la vida.

Muchos creyentes sacaron a Dios de sus vidas por culpa del comportamiento de otros cristianos! ¡Para mí, eso es una invitación a la superficialidad! Resolví ir al fondo en la evaluación de la mente de Jesús! ¡No me preocupan las consecuencias!

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.

Our sins are as a ghastly night, And seal with slumbers deep our sight.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their media, and your host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves — are there! They need no light by which to see, no words to speak, no motive to enact except through your own purely formed desire.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.

There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

We qualify for heaven when we enter God's presence. Some people attain that state in this life; while still living on the earth they see God. Others fail to do so even after death.

Finally Abdellahi Moussa Boqor asked, "So why are you doing this?" I paused for a moment, and then the words just came out of my mouth. "It is the will of the soul," I said. "The soul cannot be coerced.

If, for example, you take the drug in a psychotherapeutic set and setting, you will focus on personal issues and may gain insights relevant to your emotional life. If you take the drug anticipating a spiritual experience and in a spiritually encouraging environment, you may have a transcendent mystical experience that causes you to re-evaluate your place in the universe. If, however, you focus on a specific intellectual problem, it is there that your insights will reside.

She spoke of those needing the white destroyers' shiny things to bring a feeling of worth into their lives, uttered their deep-rooted inferiority of soul, and called them lacking in the essence of humanity: womanhood in women, manhood in men. For which deficiency they must crave things to eke out their beings, things to fill holes in their spirits.