Quotes About Spirituality

God is not going to love me any more or any differently when and if I finally lose this weight and become free from the stranglehold of food. Jesus's love for me, my Father's love for me, never changes.

We are being transformed into the very image of Christ. Whether we feel like it or not.

God invites us to join him in the process whereby he heals our inner world so he can transform our outer world.

That is why we must remember that though happiness is rooted in our circumstances, joy is rooted in eternity.

God is coming. He has not abandoned us, and he never will. Yes, the pain of life is sometimes too intense to be borne. But when from that place we cry out to Jesus to save us, the heavens rejoice, the demons tremble in defeat, and the Holy Spirit who is closer than our skin transforms us.

The secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is."5

Sia lodato Gesù Cristo, disse Don Biffero. Love me tender, rispose Don Fender.

The trees' bare bony fingers point crookedly towards Heaven or Hell or worse than that, towards nowhere.

If God exists, He is there, in the small, cast-off pieces, rough and random and no two alike.

The next time you break something, consider the action that might not immediately come to mind: Say a prayer of thanks over what has been broken. Then, give it a place of honor. Build it a shrine.

It's the life force of angels. It's hope. It's faith. It's all those good things in life that give people the strength to get up each day and cope with what they have. It's the blood that flows through me.

EL-FAYOUMY: Yes. Mother. Is there a Hell? MOTHER TERESA: I hope not, but I think so.

Buddhism, it seemed, was a rational religion, whose truth-claims could withstand the test of reason.

Religious interpretations invariably reduce complexity to uniformity while elevating matter-of-factness to holiness.

Nanamoli Thera (Osbert Moore). The Life of the Buddha. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publishing Society, 1992 (1st edition 1972). Shantideva. The Bodhicaryavatara. (1) Translated from Sanskrit by Kate Crosby and Andrew Skilton. Oxford/New York:

of the monastic institutions on which it depended. Since celibate monks tended to

The Four are presented in that order because that is the order in which they occur as tasks to be performed: fully knowing suffering leads to the letting go of craving, which leads to experiencing its cessation, which leads to the cultivation of the path.

Once, all humans lived as the Navi do.

To the Navi, Eywa is their mother goddess - and, in a sense their heaven. She takes them into herself when they die.

But I'm not afraid anymore because heaven and hell are not destinations. They are decisions.

I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.

The power of God was not omniscience. The power of God was not omnipotence. The power of God was love.

I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.

The goal of human life, says Ramakrishna, is to meet God face to face. But the magic is this: if we look deeply into the face of all created things, we will find God. Therefore, savor the world, the body. Open it, explore it, look into it. Worship it.