Quotes About Spirituality

religion to other religions. Then he came to his main point: the essence of Christianity is not about religion at all, but about the person of Christ.

In fact, we are not sick and in need of healing. We are dead and in need of resurrecting.

for Luther the Bible was not a book like Aristotle's Ethics or like a volume of Livy or Cicero. It was something entirely apart from every book in the world. It was the living Word of God and therefore could not be read like any other book. It was inspired by God, and when one read it, one must do so in such a way—with such closeness and intimacy—that one fully intended to feel and smell the breezes of heaven.

the essence of Christianity is not about religion at all, but about the person of Christ.

There's no sense to expect the fruits where the Word really is no longer being preached.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. They should remain open. Our only comfort is the God of the resurrection, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who also was and is his God.

Florence is an old soul—I'm sure she has been here on earth many times before this incarnation.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

If you insist on reducing it to its basic elements, it's the sure and simple knowledge that there's something more out there, something greater than yourself, than mankind: a grand plan, a design that can't be comprehended by you or by any other human being, because it is numinous, it is God's design, something only He can fathom.

tranquillity is only one aspect of the harmony of life. And harmony is what all people strive to achieve. Harmony is the basis of a clear mind, of a good and powerful karma.

The first principle of Gnosticism is the nonrecognition of reality.

Cuando la entidad colectiva intramundana ocupa el lugar de Dios, la persona se convierte en miembro al servicio del contenido mundano sacralizado, esto es, deviene instrumento(...). El problema de su modo de vida de su existencia física y espiritual solo resulta importante en relación con la existencia de la comunidad a la que pertenece(...).

The temptation to fall from uncertain truth into certain truth is stronger in the clarity of the Christian faith than in other spiritual structures. But the absence of a secure hold on reality and the demanding spiritual strain are generally characteristic of border experiences in which man's knowledge of transcendent being, and thereby of the origin and meaning of mundane being, is constituted.

Seeds send down a runner beneath the surface. Before making an appearance above ground, the seed first grows beneath the surface. In the same way, we must first go deep in order to find the source of living water to sustain our lives. We must go deep into the Word of G-D lest we build ourselves on a foundation of shifting sand and get blown over in the first storm that comes into our lives. We must first grow beneath the surface.

Enfin, le soufisme n'était pas une maladie, ce qui m'a déjà rassuré un peu, c'était une façon de penser -même s'il y a des façons de penser qui sont aussi des maladies, disait souvent monsieur Ibrahim.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

Any content that functions through its emotional dynamisms, such as the paralyzing grip of inertia or an invasion by instinct, belongs to the sphere of the mother, to nature. But all contents capable of conscious realization, a value, an idea, a moral canon, or some other spiritual force, are related to the father-, never to the mother-system.

the initiate becomes an "ennoos," one who possesses nous, or whom the nous possesses, a "pneumaHkos." 71

More: she is something that cries out to be rescued, set free, and redeemed, and she demands that the man shall prove himself manly, not merely as the bearer of the phallic instrument of fertilization, but as a spiritual potency, a hero. She expects strength, cunning, resourcefulness, bravery, protection, and readiness to fight.

As everywhere in the ancient world, virginity simply means not belonging to any man personally; virginity is in essence sacred, not because it is a state of physical invio-lateness, but because it is a state of psychic openness to God.

Though the anima figure also has transpersonal characteristics, she is closer to the ego, and contact with her is not only possible, but is the source of all fruitfulness.