Quotes About Spirituality

There is a direct relationship between our personal experience with the Lord and how we see ourselves. The closer we grow to him, the more clear and complete becomes our vision of who we are, who we have always been, and who we may become.

On those days when we are not ready to stop being offended, not ready to forgive, still determined to dish out the silent treatment, what we are actually saying is, 'Thanks, but I don't want to become more like the Savior today. Maybe tomorrow, but not today.' Perhaps those are the times when we need to pray the hardest, the times it becomes clear that a change in behavior is not enough--that we must have a change in nature.

Looking up, which includes seeking a spiritual witness from God, is the only way to understand who we are. The world is utterly incapable of giving us an accurate view of ourselves.

when you love the Lord more than you love your spouse, your capacity to love will increase and you will increasingly love your spouse even more.

As leaders have sought revelation, the guidance received over the past few years is to strengthen the sacrament meeting, honor the Sabbath day, and encourage and assist parents and individuals to make their homes a source of spiritual strength and increased faith—a place of joy and happiness.

God must feel the same at the end of a long day. Stop trying to make Me happy with all that ritual up and down, all the good works and psychic genuflecting. All the good works in the world will not bring you and closer to Me. Stand still. Let Me look at you and find Myself reflected. Maybe for a brief moment, you thought it was all about you, but surprise, Creation. It is all about Me.

Then I wondered if that's all God ever is--somebody who loves you enough to come back from the dead to visit every now and again. Or if that's all that other people ever are--different faces of God walking around.

Loneliness is good practice for eternity.

The world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

My faith means everything to me. God and I talk constantly.

Once I accepted Christ I immediately had peace. I still didn't have a place to live, I still didn't have a car, but I had peace.

the women we spoke with rarely left home in the same way as spiritual heroes of the past. For the most part they did not sever their relationships with those they loved. Even more remarkably, they did not usually leave home to quest for the sacred, as did virtually every male spiritual seeker from the Buddha to the knights of the Holy Grail. On the contrary, the women we talked with made their connection with the sacred before they ever left home.

You have been all my moments of grace.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science

Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.

I had come to the time in my life when prayer became necessary and so I invented gods and prayed to them

To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

Such a Zen dialogue is basically a contest, but it's really an anti-contest. It's a kind of reverse or paradoxical contest. It works like this: two people talk, and the first one who speaks from the ego loses. The one who wants to win is certainly going to lose.

In India, there is a word that means both "cessation" and "satisfaction" as a single linked concept. The word is nirvana.

Each day is peppered with a holy glow.

Sometimes a person can become stunningly proficient with regard to certain dimensions of spiritual empowerment while under-emphasizing other aspects. In my way of thinking, the ultimate reason to experience liberation is to better serve others. And a sine qua non for effectively serving others is to be a decent person by the ordinary canons of society, or as my father would have put it, a mensch. Freedom should be manifested within clear ethical guidelines and an egalitarian feedback structure.