Quotes About Spirituality

Jesus has to be crying up there somewhere. Or laughing hysterically. I can't figure out which one.

whatever it is that happens to people after they're dead. Rejoicing in heaven, or burning in hell, or being reincarnated, or ascending another plane of consciousness, or whatever.

Because you do not believe? Oh, no, said Attolia bitterly. Because I believe and do not choose to worship.

My god is not a ten-devotee-to-the-average-dozen, got-a-priest-on-every-corner kind of god who is always being badgered by his worshipers. He keeps a very close eye on me, and what may look completely stupid to you is merely a demonstration of my faith.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, thank you, that would suffice.

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

We are all meant to be mothers of God...for God is always needing to be born.

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.

There's a place in the soul where you've never been wounded.

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Nobody at any time is cut off from God.

Death was just the beginning of a journey that everyone took at some point.

Trying to imagine heaven could be like... trying to picture the fourth dimension. We can't do it. But that doesn't mean it's not there.

He talks about God, and loving God. he says that when we open to loving a person, whether that person is a spouse, friend, or child, we open our hearts to loving God. He says when we let someone love us, we're opening our hearts to god's love. he says the acts are the same. p 19 I decide loving isn't for the fain. Its for the courageous. p 19

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.1 —II TIMOTHY 1:7

Stop picking on yourself, worrying if you're good enough, wondering what people will see if you let them see your heart. This is what they'll see: that you are a lovable and delightful soul, a beautiful child of God.