Quotes About Spirituality

A veces son necesarios nuestros errores para hacernos más humildes, y es entonces cuando somos más útiles para Él. Para Dios nunca somos mercancía defectuosa. Él convierte nuestras cicatrices en lunares que realzan nuestra belleza.

Dios de amor, Pongo este problema sobre tu altar Sírvete interpretar para mí esta situación. Que yo vea sólo el amor en los demás y en mí. Muéstrame lo que debo ver, Guíame a lo que debo hacer. Ayúdame a perdonar. Elévame por encima del dolor que hay en mi mente. Gracias, Dios. Amén.

the miraculous application of love as a balm on every wound.

Durante todo este tiempo creíamos que Lo estábamos esperando. Poca idea teníamos de que era Él quien nos estaba esperando a nosotros.

Miracles occur in response to every problem, yet it is my faith and compassion that bring them forth.

Course in Miracles says that everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them.

I can see that the spiritual path has been the calling of my soul for a very long time, and I am ready to devote the rest of my life to walking it as best I can.

My soul drank enough to know how thirsty it was.

The five dollars I gave her would never reach her. I knew that: because I wanted my class to think me good for giving it. Spiritual Pride the nuns called it, a Sin of Intention, sister to the Sin of Omission, which was the price for what you hadn't done but thought. Sometimes I prayed so hard for God to materialize at the foot of my bed it would start to happen; then I'd beg it to stop, and it would.

Sometimes I prayed so hard for God to materialize at the foot of my bed it would start to happen; then I'd beg it to stop, and it would.

The story is told of Mother Theresa that when an interviewer asked her. What do you say when you pray? she answered, I listen. The reporters paused a moment, then asked, Then what does God say? and she replied, He listens. It is hard to imagine a more succinct way to get at the intimacy of contemplative prayer.

Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire

The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with the deadness, hardness and apathy I was feeling about myself and the world around me, explaining that it was all necessary, a middle step in an evolution from an innocent child to an intelligent, powerful being capable of making a mark on the world.

I never really hated one true god But the god of all the people I hated

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

I have decided the two choices open to me are (1) to torment myself or (2) to trust the Lord. There is no earthly solution to the problems that confront me. But I can add to my problems, as I believe I have done, by dwelling on them. So, no more of that.

God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the presense of the Lord, who is with us always. He said, Love is what it amounts to, a loftier love, and pleasure in a loving presence.

Prayer is a discipline in truthfulness, in honesty.

There is a reality in blessing, which I take baptism to be, primarily. It doesn't enhance sacredness, but it acknowledges it, and there is a power in that.

I'm writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me...

We would have visions in those days,a number of us did. Your young men will have visions and your old men will dream dreams

Love is holy because it is like grace—the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. — Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprint edition, November 15, 2004) Originally published October 28, 2004.

He said, Family is a prayer. Wife is a prayer. Marriage is a prayer. Baptism is a prayer. No, he said. Baptism is a what I'd call a fact.

You can spend forty years teaching people to be awake to the fact of the mystery and then some fellow with no more theological sense than a jackrabbit gets himself a radio ministry and all your work is forgotten.