Quotes About Spirituality

A pobreza é um bem que encerra todos os bens do mundo. É uma grande soberania; confirmo que se assenhoreia de todos os bens quem nenhum caso faz de os deixar.

barangkali hidup adalah doa yang panjang, dan sunyi adalah minuman keras. ia merasa Tuhan sedang memandangnya dengan curiga; ia pun bergegas.

bahwa kasih sayang mengungguli segalanya menembus apa pun yang tidak bisa dipahami oleh pengertian pinggir jalan tidak akan bisa dicapai tidak bisa dibincangkan dengan teori metode dan pendekatan apa pun...

Come holy lyre speak to me and become a voice!

There ain't nothing like religion to bring out the worst in folks.

White, black, or red. I expect even the yellow men ain't much different. All made by the same God.

The wound is the place where the light enters. —RUMI (attributed)

When the circumstances don't make sense, "God, do you still love me?" is the wrong question to ask. It's spiritual self-harm for the purpose of living an identity of pain. "God, how are you loving me right now? I'm having trouble seeing the evidence of your presence, where is it?" are the questions that help us

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

In fact they were initially sublimely indifferent to politics altogether, since they believed the world was going to end soon and that what mattered was preparing oneself for the immediate return of the Lord Jesus and an apocalyptic final judgement. Their core values focused around a personal (interior) relationship with God and holiness,

In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands – there is nothing here for a man but his own mind.

I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright, Yet I am I, who long to be Lost as a light is lost in light.

If I Must Go If I must go to heaven's end Climbing the ages like a stair, Be near me and forever bend With the same eyes above me there; Time will fly past us like leaves flying, We shall not heed, for we shall be Beyond living, beyond dying, Knowing and known unchangeably.

I Have Loved Hours at Sea I have loved hours at sea, gray cities, The fragile secret of a flower, Music, the making of a poem That gave me heaven for an hour; First stars above a snowy hill, Voices of people kindly and wise, And the great look of love, long hidden, Found at last in meeting eyes. I have loved much and been loved deeply— Oh when my spirit's fire burns low, Leave me the darkness and the stillness, I shall be tired and glad to go.

I believed that what mattered to God was the direction I was facing not how far away I was. Sin it seemed to me was the refusal to let God be God.

The fact is,' she stated bluntly, 'I am no more a human being than a gust of wind is. I have never had a human individual life. I have … lived in the joys, sorrows and worries of other people … it is the non-human world I belong to myself. My people are mangroves, swamps, rivers and the sea and so on–we understand each other.

When well told and well lived by the storytellers, worship, like story itself, offers opportunities for the imagination to be nurtured and transformed.

Christians swim in metaphor like fish in the sea. Spiritual formation requires some measure of analogical or imaginative ability, since we are, after all, dealing with an invisible God who can't be humanly grasped except in comparison to things that are, well, humanly grasped.

Story is one of the most powerful ways we pattern our world and discover its meaningfulness. It goes beyond mere embellishment of a spiritual point to providing a nurturing form or substance for the God-hungry imagination, one that helps young people inhabit a narratable world.

No man is saved by his imagination," quipped nineteenth-century Scottish preacher George Morrison. "It is a question if any man is saved without it."18

Somehow the church has forgotten what it knew for so long: story goes beyond simply illustrating some spiritual point or other; it gives form to content; it incarnates meaning.

be fully immersed in the baptismal waters of the Christian faith takes the entire pool of the worshiping community.

Something more is going on with Jesus' storytelling than clarification or embellishment: he's out to rock our world.

Catechesis means impressing upon youth a Life, not a religion. —KENDA DEAN AND RON FOSTER