Quotes About Spirituality

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.

Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long time, if ever.

I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed.

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

The way people come to church every week, know the songs and be hurting on the inside. We miss the moment to really encounter God... bring healing.

If we can develop the character and work with God, then let him develop the character of Christ in us, we're going to become the best possible husband, the best possible wife.

I am a Christian. My husband and I belong to the Episcopal Church.

I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing... chanting hymns containing the word 'Hosanna.'

People love to hear the choir sing the hymns.

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

People give because they identify with Burning Man, with our city, with our civic life. The idea of giving something to the citizens of Black Rock City has enormous appeal to them because it enhances their sense of who they are and magnifies their sense of being. That's a spiritual reward.

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

When you think about how many wars are created through the word religion it's hard to identify with it, or even accept it.

When your identity is found in Christ, your identity never changes. You are always a child of God.

Honesty is the door to finding a love that brings an identity found only in Christ.

God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.

I started out in the Chabad movement, and I started pretty closed up, with the idea of there being that 'this is it.' I bought into that fully. I really explored in depth the Chabad ideology.

I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.