Quotes About Spirituality

I am responsible only to myself and my God. Only I know what I did of my own free will. And for that I can answer to my God. What I did without, or against my free will, for that I need not answer.…

God is everything higher which I cannot understand but only believe.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

Worldly friends are deceptive time-wasters, Life like a flash of lightning in the sky, And material things like bubbles on a stream; Do not cling to them, Jampal Drak.

Here near the bottom of the degenerate age The forces of negativity and darkness prevail Even Buddhas, boddhisatvas and Sages shy away And pass silently away to the sphere of peace. How can a simple little butter lamp Placed in the face of a terrible storm Ever hope to eliminate the darkness of night?

Not only are people created in the image of God, but all people are spiritually equal before God. More than anything else, this idea separated Judaism, which was a national or ethnic religion, from Christianity. Jews and Gentiles, men and women, slaves and free, Romans and barbarians, all were welcome in the church as equals.

One should speak truthfully; one should not get angry; when asked, one should give, even if there is just a little. With these three traits, one would go in the presence of the radiant ones.

La gente dice: pobres tiene que haber siempre. Y se quedan tan anchos, tan estrechos de miras, tan vacíos de espíritu.

We must learn to soundproof the heart against the intruding noises of the public world in order to hear what God has to say.

People whose minds are not strengthened for endurance are by no means always unintelligent. They simply have never stopped to think that the use of the mind for the purpose of growth is a necessary part of a God-pleasing lifestyle.

If my private world is in order, it will be because Iabsorb the words of Christ into my attitudes and actions.

Keep me, O Lord, from waxing mentally and spiritually dull and stupid. Help me to keep the physical, mental, and spiritual fiber of the athlete, of the man who denies himself daily and takes up his cross and follows Thee. Give me good success in my work, but hide pride from me. Save me from the self-complacency that so frequently accompanies success and prosperity. Save me from the spirit of sloth, of self-indulgence, as physical infirmities and decay creep upon me.6

We will know that we have learned this significant principle when we come to the point at which the development and maintenance of a strong inner world becomes the most important single function of our existences.

Ich liebe den Engel, so ein Teufel ich auch sein mag.

Wenn Gott in seiner Rechten alle Wahrheit und in seiner Linken den einzigen immer regen Trieb nach Wahrheit, obschon mit dem Zusatze, mich immer und ewig zu irren, verschlossen hielte und spräche zu mir: wähle! Ich fiele ihm mit Demut in seine Linke und sagte: Vater gib! die reine Wahrheit ist ja doch nur für dich allein!

God is loving you into better relationships. He is loving you into being a more loving person. The more we grow in love, the less offended we become. The less offended we become, the more easily and quickly we get healed when people do wound us.

Many charismatics do not know the difference between legalism and self-discipline.

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.

He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted - to be a saint.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

If God had been like a toad, you could have rid the globe of toads, but when God was like yourself, it was no good being content with stone figures — you had to kill yourself among the graves.

Human love can be only a pale reflection of the emotion that God must feel for what He has created

Hullo, commandant,' I said, 'how's the General?' 'Which general?' he asked with a shy grin. 'Surely in the Caodaist faith,' I said, 'all generals are reconciled.