Quotes About Spirituality

What I don't think they realize is that when they pray for a healing, death is a healing... It's not the healing that you might want, but as sure as we're born, we're going to die. And we're healed from the troubles of this world.

Religion is for people who don't want to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who've been there.

There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are.

The Buddhists tell us that in order to find yourself, you first have to lose your mind.' It is one of the most consoling things anybody has ever said to me.

The most important gift you can give your child is to help them begin a walk of faith with the God of the universe. From the moment your children arrive in your home, you are teaching them how to see the world, what to consider important, what to seek, what to love. As a mother, you have the opportunity to form your home and family life in such a way that God's reality comes alive to your children each day.

When someone once asked me just what it was that my parents did that made me believe in God, without even thinking I said, "I think it was French toast on Saturday mornings and coffee and Celtic music and discussions and candlelight in the evenings . . ." Because in those moments I tasted and saw the goodness of God in a way I couldn't ignore.

When I look into her searching blue eyes, I am filled with wonder and an urgent sense of desire. I want to be a better woman, to walk this path of life well beside her, to point her towards God's fingerprints and kindness, to live a full, abundant life so that she, too, can know that she is free to live into hers.

Always, my only hope and my only strength and my only way to cope has been an utter abandonment to God, knowing that if He doesn't work, if He doesn't move in the midst of us through His Holy Spirit, if He doesn't take my paltry fish and loaves and make it into more than it really is, I do not have a hope of making it. I relinquish my desire to control and yield this moment, this day and hope that He will show up.

If you have time for television but not for personal time with the Father, then you don't understand the value of your relationship with Him. If you spend hours on the Internet each week but rarely open your Bible, you are not committed to the honor of knowing and listening to Him.

Owning your life—your actions and decisions, and their consequences—must begin with a healthy view of yourself that is based on what God thinks of you. Once you listen to His voice, your self-perception will change.

Jesus didn't come just to save our souls; He came to redeem every part of our lives.

God "has planted eternity in the human heart" (Ecclesiastes 3:11, NLT).

A WISE WOMAN TAKES CARE OF HER EMOTIONAL HEALTH, her spiritual health, and her intellectual growth.

Be sure to get away often enough that you are regularly exposed to God's art and able to remember that He is transcendent above all the details of your life.

We allow the habit of busyness to replace our habits of prayer and Scripture reading.

Taking time away to really seek God and to remember what He has done always shows us a bigger picture of Him.

God loves when you wrestle Him, Nathan," she said. "Because wrestling is a full-contact sport, and God loves it when you are in contact with Him. Maybe He has a bigger view of your life and is willing to do more than you can presently see.

work of seeking to be a mentor to your children, seeking to pass on a spiritual formation that creates a live faith, giving the training required to develop godly character, and creating a love for learning is absolutely one of the most profound works of our whole society and world.

We live to die, we die to eternally live.

You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Dangus - nei aukštai, nei žemai, nei dešin?je, nei kair?je, Dangus yra žmogaus, kuris Tiki, širdyje.

Politics are important but your soul lasts forever. So, you know, you make ... decisions on what you think is right or wrong and then you just go forward.

Inside, Katherine opened Sarah's refrigerator and, from between leathery unwrapped burrito halves and Tupperwares holding bluing sludge, took out a wheel of cheap Brie still in its plastic and set it down on the counter. "I like your apartment," she said. "Sorry it's so messy," said Sarah. Katherine shrugged. "Bukowski said that people with clean kitchens have detestable spiritual qualities.