Quotes About Spirituality

What distinguishes all love from lust is the fact that it bears an impress of eternity.

Prayer is listening.

The misfortune of our time is just this, that it has become simply nothing else but 'time', the temporal, which is impatient of hearing anything about eternity.

Spiritually, a man's thoughts must be the building in which he lives, otherwise it's wrong.

The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself.

There was a young man favorably endowed as an Alcibiades. He lost his way in the world. In his need he looked about for a Socrates but found none among his contemporaries. Then he requested the gods to change him into one. But now--he who had been so proud of being an Alcibiades was so humiliated and humbled by the gods' favor that, just when he received what he could be proud of, he felt inferior to all.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breath forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God

Only the Eternal is always appropriate and always present, is always true. Only the Eternal applies to each human being, whatever his age may be.

He who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

The field of the soul must be watered by the rain with tears of love; otherwise it will become a desert.

Saints are those who managed to love more than we did.

God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!

With what can we feed the soul in the world of emptiness other than with prayer?

O Lord, I am further away from me than from You!

See karma, make dharma

He who sees his soul is more than his life does not confuse the two.

Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.

The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight and narrow way that leads to life eternal.

Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.

I actually do believe in life after death.

I don't bring God into my life to - to, you know, kind of be a political person.

I try to live a faith-filled life. I'm a believer.

I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.