Quotes About Spirituality

I wish he'd show you how wisdom looks from the inside, for true wisdom is mostly 'inside.

We are most ourselves when we love; we are most the People of God when we love.

A Christian," wrote Augustine, "should be an alleluia from head to foot.

Silence, he told us, was hugely undervalued in our American way of life as a way of being in communion with one another and with God. American Christians were conspicuously deficient. "Think of it as remedial silence." This would be three days for practicing silence. "These might be the quietest three days you will ever spend. Don't waste them.

Faith" is not a generalized abstraction but a way of life that is expressed in persistent prayer.

But we do know that much of what we commonly describe as Christian behavior is not volitional at all—it is enforced. But worship is not forced. Everyone who worships does so because he or she wants to.

You're blessed when you're content with just who you are—no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.

As silver in a crucible and gold in a pan, so our lives are assayed by GOD.

GoD-the first step in learning is bowing down to GoD; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

14-16 If you're abused because of Christ, count yourself fortunate. It's the Spirit of God and his glory in you that brought you to the notice of others. If they're on you because you broke the law or disturbed the peace, that's a different matter. But if it's because you're a Christian, don't give it a second thought. Be proud of the distinguished status reflected in that name!

Christian discipleship is a decision to walk in his ways, steadily and firmly, and then finding that the way integrates all our interests, passions and gifts, our human needs and our eternal aspirations. It is the way of life we were created for.

Too often we think of religion as a far-off, mysteriously run bureaucracy to which we apply for assistance when we feel the need.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

Christian discipleship is a decision to walk in his ways, steadily and firmly, and then finding that the way integrates all our interests, passions, and gifts, our human needs and eternal aspirations. It is the way of life we were created for.

The Bible is not a textbook. Nor is it a manual to be studied, mastered, and mechanically applied. Instead, I believe we should listen to the Word of God and reflect upon it like poetry till it infiltrates the soul.

It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.

It is often said that the more spiritual a person becomes, the more unassuming they are. Eventually, they vanish entirely.

I sipped, thanking the particles of tea leaves for absorbing the sun's heat on dewy terraced mountains, growing fat and lustrous, then drying in the same heat, preserving God's grace in a fragile, fragrant medium for me to drink at this table.

if someone has just hurt you or broken your heart, if someone has just died, all the grace you need is there-waiting for you to receive it. As long as we are pulled inward-despair and self attention, we aren't free to reach for God's grace. If we mean to leave ourselves alone, we must keep a hand free.

God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.

Joy might be God- in the marrow of our bones.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

I was shaking when I asked my mother, "Do you think you eat enough?" She was silent for a long time until she said quietly, "That is between me and God.