Quotes About Spirituality

It is the false convert who is like a dog that returns to his vomit and the pig who goes back to the mire. A genuine convert would rather die than despise the Spirit of grace and trample the blood of Christ under his feet. 3:21 See Psalm 50:22-23.

Joy is the grace we say to God.

I believe the universe created us we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

The function of the zazen and koan is to undo the system that contains them.

True liberty comes with the abandonment of self in our worshiping God, freeing us to worship in His way, not ours.

A primary role of traditional religion is deathist rationalization—that is, rationalizing the tragedy of death as a good thing.

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

being able to catch and eat fish on a journey provides a deep spiritual connection to the land. Fishing

The final mark of a saint is not perfection, but lived virtue. It is the striving for holiness throughout the arc of a life that makes a saint.

While I would not claim that Muir's "God" (or his "Mother Nature") is neatly synonymous with China's "Tao," it seems clear that what Muir is getting at when he uses the various terms examined above is well within the variety of concepts that have been advanced to describe "the Tao

In his powerful essay 2 Contents, 2 Realities, Francis Schaeffer proposes four things that should mark a gospel-created church: sound doctrine, honest answers to honest questions, true spirituality, and the beauty of human relationships.

Becoming a Christian doesn't just add something to the old you; it creates a new you. The risen Christ indwells you now, never to leave (Rom. 8:10–11).

We get into wisdom the hard way, through the Lord's instruction and discipline, through being chastened and corrected.

The spring of Christian power runs all the way down to what we desire. Most of what we do in life, we do out of the desires of our hearts. This is humbling, but true. So the more our hearts love the Lord, the more progress we will make.

Solamente la poderosa presencia del Señor resucitado puede hacer que una iglesia esté centrada en el evangelio.

intended to include the prayer on Harney Peak in the book. Although the old man was embarrassed in front of the priests who had been his confessors and advisors for many years, he never denied the sincerity of his final appeal to the six grandfathers.87

We feel (God's) presence every time we make a choice. It's something that's inside us.

It was only with Christianity that the idea of what a person believed in started to matter, and matter a lot, because his or her eternal life suddenly depended on it.

J'entends rire les morts quand on parle de dieux.

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. Were looking for something, though were not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Yoga is bodily gospel.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?

The problem stems from our great difficulty in believing that God is glorified in our utter humanity rather than in our spiritually programmed responses.