Quotes About Spirituality

We read off the ancient Hebrew words, with no idea of what they might mean, and the congregation responds with more words that they don't understand either. We are gathered together on a Saturday morning to speak gibberish to each other, and you would think, in these godless times, that the experience would be empty, but somehow it isn't.

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

Your mind cannot possibly understand God. Your heart already knows.

Sono sicuro che non stia recitando per ingannare gli altri, mi chiedo però se il bugiardo che c'è in lui non lo stia ingannando. Quando Cristo entra nel suo cuore, quando la certezza di essere amato nonostante tutto gli fa scorrere sulle guance lacrime di gioia, non sarà caduto ancora una volta nella rete dell'Avversario?

J'ai pensé qu'écrire cette histoire ne pouvait être qu'un crime ou une prière.

comme nous autres bobos pour qui le cours de yoga du dimanche matin a remplacé la messe marmonnons un mantra, à la suite de notre maître, avant de commencer la pratique. Dans ce mantra, cependant, on souhaite que les pluies tombent à point nommé et que tous les hommes vivent en paix, ce qui relève sans doute du vœu pieux mais n'offense pas la raison, et c'est une différence notable avec le christianisme. (p. 17)

Bisognerà, un giorno o l'altro, accettare o volere la conversione che dobbiamo vivere, noi cristiani per tradizione, più fortemente di ogni altro;

Non resta che una cosa: pregare, perché le tenebre non si confondano con la luce

Essa dà, secondo me, un senso concreto, vicino, familiare, all'al di là:

la prigione viene a essere non l'abominio di desolazione delle famiglie, quanto invece il suo luogo naturale, solo allora lo spirito cristiano avrà ritrovato la sua primitiva dignità.

poi, c'è la ferita che riguarda continuamente il cristiano nel mondo, quella della solitudine.

L'amore umano insegna molte cose riguardo alle vie dell'amore di Dio

ogni autentica preghiera si fonda sulla morte delle potenze, sensibili, intellettuali, volontarie,

La sua persona è così trasparente che la si può confondere con la Presenza.

When I look up and see a star, I know my mom is there. She's with me all the time. It's a powerful connection.

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.

You cannot expect to reach port if you are faithful in your prayers and meditations for a time, and then for a time you forget God.

If you are looking to outer, passing, mutable things for either happiness or security, you are not putting God first.

Indignation, resentment, the desire to punish other people or to see them punished, the desire to "get even," the feeling "it serves him right"—all these things form a quite impenetrable barrier to spiritual power or progress

One of the most wonderful things about the Bible teaching is that we get rid of the distinction between the sacred and the secular. That is one of the most important steps in the whole history of the soul. God is present everywhere. For those who understand Jesus' teaching, it is always the Sabbath Day, and the place whereon they stand is holy ground.

time fixes the nature of man, because if man is the offspring of God, he must partake of the nature of God, since the nature of the offspring

Conduct, your hour-by-hour thinking, produces specific conditions, and may be thought of as the weather of your soul.

The highest of all forms of prayer is true contemplation, in which the thought and the thinker become one. This is the unity of the mystic, bit it is rarely experienced in the earlier stages. Pray in whatever way you find easiest; for the easiest way is the best

If one is praying every day, as he should, for enlightenment and guidance, the one certain thing is that he will not go on holding to the same ideas as he grows older, but that he will be continually revising, enlarging, and expanding them. He will die daily, as the man he is, to be reborn bigger and wiser and better on the morrow.