Quotes About Spirituality

Às vezes acho que é preciso ser extremamente imbecil para ser um santo.

of every night you must be open to the Gods, and if

If God is within us then we need no Church and no Holy Father to lead us to His mercy, and that notion is the most pernicious of heresies

Father Hobbe, his cassock skirts hitched up to his waist, was fighting with a quarterstaff, ramming the pole into French faces. 'In the name of the Father,' he shouted, and a Frenchman reeled back with a pulped eye, 'and of the Son,' Father Hobbe snarled as he broke a man's nose, 'and of the Holy Ghost!

She was no Christian. Instead she believed that every place and every thing had its own god or goddess; a nymph for a stream, a dryad for a wood, a spirit for a tree, a god for the fire and another for the sea. The Christian god, like Thor or Odin, was just one more deity among this unseen throng of powers, and her dreams, she said, were like eavesdropping on the gods. One day, as she rode beside me on the hills above the empty sea, she suddenly said that Alfred would give me power.

What in the holy name of a holy harlot,' Culhwch asked Galahad, 'is a holy ghost?

I know I have gained Christ and through His blessing I have gained the whole world too, but for what I have lost, for what we have all lost, there is no end to the reckoning. We lost everything.

The country's got drunk on God since then, and it don't make for happiness

Buddhists have always claimed the moral high ground and attempted, with more or less success, to maintain an exigent ideal of purity. Any spiritual practice is fated to confront the obstinate realities of human existence, however.

Although, conscious of the similarities they shared with Zen, Jesuits in Japan stressed the differences.

So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

The centre of me is always and eternally in terrible pain ... A searching for something beyond what the world contains, something transfiguring and infinite.

All joy in true thought is part of the intellectual love of God

It is outrageous arrogance for any one faith in God to believe it is the be-all and end-all of religion. That all other faiths are wrong.

Toombo. Look at the roundness of your belly. Look at the heaviness of your legs!' Toombo looks. 'God makes fat birds and small birds, trees that are wide and trees that are thin, like wattle. He makes big kernels and little kernels. I am a big kernel. One does not argue with God.' The theosophism defeats Otieno;

Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open — Oliver Cromwell Well

Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.

Without Christ, every woman has intense insecurities. Unless we find our identity in Him, we Christian women can be just as prone to insecurities about our appearance as unbelievers. To Christ, the most beautiful person on earth is the one making preparation to meet the Groom.

True prayer, not just mindless, halfhearted petitions, is what digs the well God wants to fill with faith.

We need to recognize that lack of confidence does not equal humility. In fact, genuinely humble people have enormous confidence because it rests in a great God.

A Christian is held captive by anything that hinders the abundant and effective Spirit-filled life God planned for him or her.

Nothing on earth compares to the strength God is willing to interject into lives caught in the act of believing.

If we would turn the time we spent discussing the other's life into prayer time instead, no telling what would happen to the glory of God.

The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7).