Quotes About Spirituality

Oral argued that the main problem with evangelism was its focus on correct doctrine. Christians, he said, needed to adopt a person-centered approach.6

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

A creed that tells us that we are no more than selfish genes, with nothing in principle to separate us from the animals, in a society whose strongest motivators are money and success, in a universe that came into existence for no reason whatsoever and for no reason will one day cease to be, will never speak as strongly to the human spirit as one that tells us we are in the image and likeness of God in a universe he created in love.

If we can truly relate to God as God, in His full transcendence and majesty, then we can relate to humans as humans in all their fallibility.

Homo sapiens, discovering God singular and alone, discovered the human being singular and alone. There is no greater dignity than that

The home God makes for humanity is counterbalanced by the home humanity makes for God.

Holiness belongs to all of us when we turn our lives into the service of God, and society into a home for the Divine Presence.

It is as if the man said to him, "In the past, you struggled to be Esau. In the future you will struggle not to be Esau but to be yourself. In the past you held on to Esau's heel. In the future you will hold on to God. You will not let go of Him; He will not let go of you. Now let go of Esau so that you can be free to hold on to God.

Peace comes when we see our reflection in the face of God and let go of the desire to be someone else.

our views of the natural are shaped by our ideas of the supernatural.

To those who fully open themselves to it, Yom Kippur is a life-transforming experience. It tells us that God, who created the universe in love and forgiveness, reaches out to us in love and forgiveness, asking us to love and forgive others. God never asked us not to make mistakes. All He asks is that we acknowledge our mistakes, learn from them, grow through them and make amends where we can.

Without God, there is a danger that we will stay trapped within the prison of the self. As

as Katharine Hepburn majestically said to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Nature, Mr Allnut, is what we were put on earth to rise above.

God is beyond time, but human beings live within time. We cannot take ourselves out of, say, the twenty-first century and project ourselves a thousand years from now. Inescapably, we live in the now, not eternity.

Katharine Hepburn said it best. 'Nature', she says majestically to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, 'is what we are put in this world to rise above.' The

When religious faith goes, five things happen, gradually and imperceptibly. First there is a loss of belief in human dignity and the sanctity of life.

Faith in Judaism is not about ontology (what exists?) or epistemology (what can we know?) but about relationships – about the people with whom we converse.

Did it talk about the afterlife?' George said eagerly. His eyes shone bright behind his spectacles. 'That's the big one. That's what everyone wants. What happens after death. Immortality... The fate of the human soul...' I took a deep breath. 'It said you were fat.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we come here?" He sucked thoughtfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. "I've been wrong before," he said.

I may not beleive in God, but I believe in guilt and no one wants to dick around with eternity, even if it isn't there.