Quotes About Spirituality

Religion should be a personal and private thing between a soul and God.

True religion consists not only in feelings towards God, but also in duties towards men.

But even the most general ideas of God should not be forced on a childish mind; they should come, so to speak, by chance; they should be presented in answer to some demand of the child's heart; they should be inculcated by stray words and passing remarks; they should form the atmosphere surrounding the child habitually, and not be a sudden "wind of doctrine."

For all the practical purposes of Yoga, the man, the working, conscious man, is so much of him as he cannot separate from the matter enclosing him, or with which he is connected. Only that is body which the man is able to put aside and say: "This is not I, but mine."

Death is nothing more than the putting off your overcoat, in which you wandered through the street, when you come inside your house and no longer need its protection. It is nothing more than that--the putting off of a garment because it is no longer wanted, because it is no longer useful for the high purposes of the Spirit.

If, then, you would lead the spiritual life, go downwards as well as upwards. Feel your unity with the sinner as well as with the saint. For the only thing that makes you divine is the Spirit that lives in every human heart alike, in all equally dwelling, and there is no difference in the divinity of the Spirit, but only in the stage of its manifestation.

For he who is love is God; he whose whole being is love is the image of the Supreme; in himself he reproduces the divinity, for Love is God and God is Love.

If she's not already there, will you help her find her way to heaven? She's not very good at directions.

Momma had left this world and set herself free, and in doing so, she had set me free too. As much as I missed her and wished I could hear her laughter one more time, I believed she was out there in the big bright somewhere, watching me, cheering for me. Loving me.

True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.

God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us.  He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until we come to him and his plan for complete satisfaction.

An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory!

Worship is focus.

I don't think it's spiritually economic to be a skeptic about absolutely everything.

God has a lot more to give and to offer than the world has to give.

The way I see it, putting your faith in God is something that each person has gotta come to on his or her own.It's your own personal relationship with Him; a bond that's as unique as a fingerprint.

Here's my advice: don't put all your hope and faith into something that could suddenly and easily disappear. And honestly, that's almost anything. The only thing that will never go away, that will never fail you, is your faith in God.

So maybe someone listening will be inspired to pick up a Bible or go to church and their lives will be better and richer as a result.

I am dying,' she said. 'I want you to paint the goddess on my hand. When I go to that other land I shall hold up my hand—' she held it up 'and greet her. She has given me a good life.'… 'Aye,' said the old woman. 'Imoy, there she is. Here we paint her looking down to see us, but this is better. Her eyes are open, she will know me.

Every holy passage leaves a scar.

I recently became a Christian Scientist. It was the only health plan I could afford.

I was a child who listened to trees and felt the disappointments of the dead. I had friends but they weren't as real as those invisible things that inhabited secret places in my mind.

Rivayete göre ?eytan, Mesih ?sa'ya Asya yakas?ndaki Çaml?ca tepelerinden, "dünyan?n ve içindeki krall?klar?n bütün ihti?am? budur" derken Bo?az'?, Haliç'i ve Bizans akropolisini göstermi?tir. Buras? kusursuz ve bu yüzden sürekli yeni ba?tan hayat bulan, ba?tan ç?kar?c? ?ey olarak tasvir edilecek bir yerdi.