Quotes About Spirituality

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. — Josephine Hart

I'm not sure whether or not any love matches are made in heaven, but some do suggest heaven had a hand in the introductions.

Question of Baptism

Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

All miracles tend to have the ability to occur if your heart is devoted to your body, mind, and soul. ~J.D

My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was one of the most amazing men - the most amazing man that I ever met... He lived an amazing life.

The more I grow in Christ the less my prayers have to do with asking God and have instead to do with communing with God.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

Speaking in math terms, they are one to the infinite power. Jesus said, "The Father and I are one

After breakfast I went back to bed, but for the longest time, I could not sleep. I stared at Clarice's shams and prayed and prayed and prayed. I had been raised to believe that prayer could move mountains, if only you had faith the size of a mustard seed. "Mountains be damned," I whispered to God. "I need a body moved.

heaven in a gaze, A heaven of heavens, the privilege Of one another's eyes.

two books besides the Koran. I'd noticed when heading beachward—copies are given away in the lobby for gratis. I want to hoard heaps of these, cairns and dolmens of these—I want to die in this facility wrapped in a rabbinic beard as quilly soft as this duvet so that when Security (dial 0) slams down the door I'll be buried under this monument: 1,001 Korans.

The most unfortunate thing about being an atheist wasn't the loss of God and all the comfort and reassurance of God—no small things—but the loss of a vital human vocabulary. Grace, charity, transcendence: I felt them as surely as any believer, even if we differed on the ultimate cause, and yet I had no right words for them.

Well, that started me on the path out. I realized my religious tradition couldn't account for everything, not even everything sacred.

The romanticization of nature was idol worship, he inveighed, the deification of the created over the Creator.

for Christians typical dating can often be a swerver - an approach to relationships that wants to go in a different direction than the one God has for us.

We should never use spiritual activities as a way to grab for more intimacy than is appropriate for our relationship.

I've come to see that you can limit God is different ways. You can limit Him by thinking he can never work in spectacular ways. But you can also limit Him by thinking that only the spectacular is meaningful." - from "Dug Down Deep

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

She exists in me now, just as I will and already do within my grandchildren. No one ever truly dies. The desires of our hearts make a path. We create legacy with our thoughts and dreams.

We are all here to serve each other. At some point we have to understand that we do not need to carry a story that is unbearable. We can observe the story, which is mental; feel the story, which is physical; let the story go, which is emotional; then forgive the story, which is spiritual, after which we use the materials of it to build a house of knowledge.

The heart is a fist. It pockets prayer or holds rage.