Quotes About Spirituality

To worship means to feel distance. But God is not distant.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michelangelo is not conceivable.

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

We cannot, therefore, in aspiring to a divine life, overlook the dignity of deed, to make an idol of thought.

Over Emily's grave, Peach said the Lord's Prayer in a

Having no beginning and no end, circles represent the infinite, ergo the divine. Giotto and the pope knew such things by heart.

I would rather trust in the living God than in any other power on earth

If I cannot have a religion that will lead me to God, and place me en rapport with him, and unfold to my mind the principles of immortality and eternal life, I want nothing to do with it.

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your roadmap through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

Faith in God presents a fascinating conundrum. So many of us have faith, but when doubt and unbelief creep in, our faith is the first thing to be compromised.

God is love,and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

No one seems to realize how immense consciousness really is. It ties us to the rest of the universe.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

There is only one Goddess, even to the angels. Gaea is known to all the races within her.

I fear you are a fool, but it is a holy foolishness.

We are each of us like a small mirror in which God searches for His reflection

Since the first sighting, this has consumed us. We have dedicated our time and our dreams to protecting and conserving this area. These woods are my church. There is no bird like this in the world.

Sometimes the Devil doth preach.

The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.

We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.