Quotes About Spirituality

Painting and religious experience are the same thing, and what we are all searching for is the understanding and realization of infinity.

we need a new miracle of being human. we need a new miracle of being alive.

People who use only their eyes do not SEE. People who use only their ears do not HEAR. It is more difficult to love than to die. It is not death that human beings are most afraid of, it is love. The heart is bigger than a mountain. One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mightly plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls.

persons who claim mystical powers often enjoy remarkably ambidextrous moralities when presented with opportunities for enrichment.

Lasting happiness can only be achieved through cultivation of soul and mind. And cultivating our souls and minds requires us to live with moral purpose.

Now turn the page, come along on the ride, and let me tell you about the death and life of Charlie St. Cloud

Heaven has the better climate, but hell has the better company.

Testing of the spirits, then, amounts to critically evaluating the utterances of various human spirits to see if they are prompted by the Holy Spirit or by some other spirit.

Faith is not the opposite of knowledge... Indeed, the mind is a gift from God, just as faith is.

The verb "cleanse" is in the present continual tense, referring to an ongoing activity. It is worth pondering whether our author is saying that cleansing happens in the course of body life, in the context of our communing with one another. Clearly, he does not see it as a purely private matter between the individual and Jesus: it is "we" who have communion and are cleansed by the blood.

C. H. Dodd puts it this way: "To over-spiritualize religion is to weaken it ethically. ,286

Faith has its reasons and reason has its faiths.

The deepest cuts are healed by faith.

A belief in the immortality of the human soul, of the survival of the person beyond death, is one of the most important expressions of human hope.

the problem is that many believe in Christ but do not truly know Him. Some even deny that there is a way to know Him, even through the dark glass of faith (see 1 Cor 13:12). This book is about knowing

A moment's glance of fire, of fire, Spiring, leaping, flaming higher, Into the intense, the cloudless blue, Until two souls were one, and flame, And very flesh, and yet the same!

Dime que te gustará esta vida oscura y deliciosa; que amarás esta paz campestre; que aquí te curarás de las locas efervescencias que tuban tu espíritu, y que anhelas ser una feliz y robusta villana, ricachona en medio de la sencillez y la abundancia, teniendo por maridillo al más chiflado de los artistas, al más espiritual habitante de esta tierra de luz, fecundidad y poesía.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Neoplatonists also believed that the vast variety of human thought, if traced back to the One Source—what Leonardo da Vinci called the Prime Mover—would lead to spiritual enlightenment and ultimately to God. This and the mystical texts that Ficino was translating led him to attempt a fusion of all mystical beliefs, from Greek gnosticism to Egyptian hermeneutics to Christian cosmology—and to Jewish Kabbalah.

He infused his ceiling fresco with Kabbalistic images that reflected the Kabbalistic pavement design below. He linked the Jewish ancestral tree to Jesus. He connected pagan philosophy and design with Judaism and Christianity. He joined his love of male beauty to his love of God. He narrated the entire story of the universe, beginning with creation, in a way that makes us realize humanity's common ancestry.

What this lone artist wanted to do was construct a giant bridge of the spirit, spanning different faiths, cultures, eras, and sexualities.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.

Have a old old testament quote that says that man shall not live by bread alone