Quotes About Spirituality

What is contemplation? Says Aquinas: "Contemplation regards the simple act of gazing on truth.

Starr recognizes the importance of Julian's message reaching the entire world, rather than being hoarded by religionists of one stripe, when she remarks that Julian's work is "for the sake of all spiritual seekers everywhere."13

God is voluptuous and delicious. — Meister Eckhart

the first good thing is the goodness of nature."40 Here she tells us to get out of our own stuckness with the human condition and open our eyes and hearts to the abundant goodness found in nature.

In the first place, Hildegard calls for a marriage of science and spirituality. For religion and the secular sciences to be sundered as they currently are is a blunder of immense proportions on the part of our species—and with potentially dire consequences.

Having learned to integrate her readings thoroughly into her own thinking and with years of contemplative study, she creates her own theology. She learns to trust her own experience

Fourteen billion years of evolution and unfolding of the universe bespeak the intimate sacredness of all that is.

in God's sight, all humanity is one person, and all people are a single humanity.

Standing by while global warming happens is killing the Christ. Ecocide is a form of killing Christ.

The sin of acedia is cutting ourselves off from the rest of the universe, cutting ourselves off from... really, the music of the universe... We cut ourselves off from that and we ourselves are listless and without music.

God the Creative Spirit, and intimate with others. To speak of creativity is to speak of profound intimacy. It is also to speak of our connecting to the Divine in us and of our bringing the Divine back to the community. This

Jesus's time, the dominant social vision was centered

The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.

The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

It is a great happiness to be under the influence of the Holy Ghost.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

True love knows no constrains, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads its wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay.

True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads its wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay.

hope you'll go to church as regularly as mother and I do. We miss a Sunday now and then, when it's fine picnicking weather. We know that God made the out-of-doors, too. But year in, year out, we go to church pretty regularly.

Some people believe that they are guided by forces, that the universe cuts paths for them through the dense forest of life, showing them where to go.

Keating leaned back with a sense of warmth and well-being. He liked this book. It had made the routine of his Sunday morning breakfast a profound spiritual experience; he was certain that it was profound, because he didn't understand it.

I think its agreeable to look back occasionally as one's perspective widens and one grows richer spiritually with the years

in the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.