Quotes About Spirituality

Spirituality without morality is rootless.

Some men want to have religion like a dark lantern, and carry it in their pocket, where nobody but themselves can get any good from it.

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

Faith is the realization of an invisible truth.

Men think religion bears the same relation to life that flowers do to trees. The tree must grow through a long period before the blossoming time; so they think religion is to be a blossom just before death, to secure heaven. But the Bible represents religion, not as the latest fruit of life, but as the whole of it--beginning, middle, and end. It is simply right living.

There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church, that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

God can only be met in emptiness, by those who come in love, abandoning all effort to control, every need to astound.

The spiritual life involves risk. There's no way around it. The paradox of biblical religion is that God cannot be understood, much less managed. Coming to terms with ultimate mystery is always dangerous. But to our amazement, encountering the Holy can also mean being strangely and unaccountably loved.

There is a certain nonacquiescence, a noncooperativeness that is the common outgrowth of a life of contemplative prayer.

There cannot be such a thing as true life without praise. Praising and no longer praising are related to each other as are living and no longer living." —Claus Westermann, The Praise of God in the Psalms (1965)

The connecting web is a mystery embedded in the ordinary. My falling in love with a tree has been a profound experience of the sacred…I increasingly encounter God's presence in the rough touch of bark and the sound of rustling leaves. In the ordinary.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

The object of a religion or a philosophy is not to make men wealthy or powerful, but to make them, in the last issue, happy: that is, to fulfil their being.

To come from God, is to come from divine wisdom, love, and truth.

If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.

God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.

What he'd like to say is that he's lived it, if not the entire breadth and depth of the Christian faith then certainly the central thrust of it. The mystery, the awe, that huge sadness and grief. Oh my people.

If you don't like my fire, don't come around cuz I'm gonna burn one down.

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

the abyss of non-belief, the vacuum, cannot be filled with stuff

Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.

Lots of people have been touched by Jesus. But I have been touched by God.

God, I love you so much I won't ever try to have sex again.