Quotes About Spirituality

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.

Oxford was in love with the idea of Christian perfection.

Aquí, si para la mayoría Dios es un ser lejano que vive en los libros y entre el incienso, el Diablo es un vecino al que muchos creen haber visto un día u otro.

The first step towards understanding God's guidance is to understand the guiding God. We need to explore his character and the way he achieves his plans before we can tackle the nitty-gritty issues we are all so interested in.

The flower offered of itself And eloquently spoke Of Gods In languages of rainbows Perfumes And secret silence...

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Beware of the tendency to preach about Christianity, and try to preach Christ.

The evolution of consciousness culminates in an all-inclusive consciousness that functions in the context of the infinite and the eternal.

One of the main reasons I've been able to stay this strange course is its ability to prove itself to me. When I reach out, there's something to grab hold of—to see, to touch, to feel. There's a reply to my questions.

Actually, a spell's a lot like a prayer. Except instead of asking a male divinity to do something for you that you can't do for yourself, a spell draws upon your own inner, Divine gifts. It's a way of giving that gift shape or form in the world.

Božanskost je navzo?a v vsakem ?loveku, in ?e so razmere ugodne, se bo sama od sebe manifestirala prav tako, kakor skali seme, v katerem se skriva življenje, in zaradi svoje narave zraste v drevo, ?e ima omogo?ene razmere za razvijanje svojih zmožnosti.

Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?

If you don't consider your life a pilgrimage, it gets downgraded to a trip or even an aimless journey. It is we who make that decision.

man's place in the universe is somewhere between the beasts and the angels, but, because of the divine image planted in him, there are no limits to what man can accomplish....

The mother of Jesus, I sometimes remember, was visited by an angel and is seen as a saint; the mother of the Buddha died at his birth. Is it any surprise that Buddhism is about learning to live with loss, while Christianity is about salvation from above?

I decided that I would no longer seek out holy places in [a] city of temples. I would just let life come to me in all its happy confusion and find the holiness in that.

my religion was but a fragrance.