Quotes About Spirituality

The Christian life — and especially the contemplative life — is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

An older charismatic woman told me, "If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work." There

she was tempted to give up on God because she couldn't reconcile her doctrine with her deity. She

Nevertheless, because of what is "written on their hearts," we are called to look for God in people and in places where we didn't expect to see God.

I felt so thirsty for God, so embarrassed by Christianity, and so ready for something more.

The world is thirsty. All creation is groaning. Christianity as it is has not satisfied the souls of those who hunger for another way of life.

Our tools have "advanced," but we haven't advanced spiritually or morally. And so we, normal people, with the tools of destruction and wastefulness available daily for purchase, cannot handle the power.

Over and over, the dying and the lepers would whisper the mystical word namaste in my ear. We really don't have a word like it in English (or even much of a Western conception of it). They explained to me that namaste means "I honor the Holy One who lives in you." I knew I could see God in their eyes. Was it possible that I was becoming a Christian, that in my eyes they could catch a glimpse of the image of my Lover?

I'm not as concerned with figuring out every minute theological question as much as I am reading the simple words of Jesus and trying to live my life as if he meant them.

According to Mother Teresa, it is among the wealthy that we can find the most terrible poverty of all—loneliness. So perhaps I was still among the poorest of the poor, but these poor folks had some cash!

If you find yourself climbing the ladder of success, be careful or else on your way up you might pass Jesus on his way down.

We have not shown the world another way of doing life. Christians pretty much live like everybody else; they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way. And doctrine is not very attractive, even if it's true. Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death. As

Liturgical theologian Aidan Kavanaugh says it well: "The liturgy, like the feast, exists not to educate but to seduce people into participating in common activity of the highest order, where one is freed to learn things which cannot be taught.

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

Jesus functions like a mirror. I have a face, but I can't see it without a mirror. The mirror doesn't give me a face; it only shows me what I already have. Jesus describes what he does as showing us what we already have. He reveals rather than creates.

Just because Christianity claims Jesus as its own does not mean that Jesus claims Christianity as his own. Christ does not bind himself to a religion, any more than wind binds itself to a sail.

If I should fall from grace with God Where no doctor can relieve me If I'm buried 'neath the sod But the angels won't receive me Let me go, boys Let me go, boys Let me go down in the mud Where rivers all run dry

Who am I to tell a man to live? Who am I to claim the powers of the Ancestors? I moved aside so the shawman could have more room to do his holy work. He's climbed the Scared Mountain and seen the face of the Ancestors. I have no place beside him. -Dashti

A cuántos malos tendría que matar? Su número, como el espacio, infinito. Pero si mato el espíritu del odio, todos mis enemigos perecen al mismo tiempo.

Day --> Dharma. Night --> Karma

People don't comprehend God with their head - they comprehend with their soul.

Our goal as yoga practitioners is to free ourselves from selfishness and strengthen our connection to this Self. Yoga is the joining of the separate self with the universal Self; it is a process of synthesis.

Pastor Brad had taught her that the best remedy for feeling down was to praise the Lord.