Quotes About Spirituality

I am sure many of you know that the veil can be very thin-that there are people over there who are pulling for us-people who have faith in us and who have great hopes for us, who are hoping and praying that we will measure up-our loved ones who have passed on

Prayer—persistent prayer—can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of the people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

I lived in my head most of the time— a lonely and messed up place —and suddenly there was a higher force called Allah I could lean on. A companion, who'd travel with me this road less trodden... My life. Islam means surrendering yourself to God.

I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.

I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there's a sudden twist we didn't dream was there, and for every loss there is somewhere a gain, for every grief a happiness, for every deprivation a giving.

On one thing all who knew him were agreed: the secret of his usefulness lay in his intense and passionate life of prayer and his unshakeable confidence in God. 'When

Nothing so good as bein' right with Jesus, my sister." I was being evangelized by an ex-con.

The mouth prays to Buddha, but the heart is full of evil

True religion is in one's heart.

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

Life wore a new aspect; the skies were bluer, the earth greener, the flowers more fragrant; her twin soul existed somewhere.

According to a Kabbalistic rabbi, in the Messianic age people will no longer quarrel with others but only with themselves.

Yitzchak was bad enough, but how could He abandon Moshe so cruelly? But her ire was quickly quelled by the immediate guilt that followed whenever she doubted her faith.

She's more like a New Ager. Do you know what that is?" "It's a person who worships chandeliers." Decker smiled. "Crystals, Rabbi. Not chandeliers." "There's a difference?" Schulman waved his hands in the air. "It's all avodah zorah—idol worship.

Shabbat dishwasher that has been an absolute

The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.

Tenía frío y no pedía fuego, tenía terrible sed y no pedía agua: pedía libros, es decir, horizontes, es decir, escaleras para subir la cumbre del espíritu y del corazón. Porque la agonía física, biológica, natural, de un cuerpo por hambre, sed o frío, dura poco, muy poco, pero la agonía del alma insatisfecha dura toda la vida

Silencio de cal y mirto. Malvas en las hierbas finas. La monja borda alhelíes sobre una tela pajiza... ... ¡Qué girasol! ¡Qué magnolia de lentejuelas y cintas! ¡Qué azafranes y qué lunas, en el mantel de la misa!

Tenía frio y no pedía fuego, tenía terrible sed y no pedía agua; pedía libros, es decir horizontes, es decir escaleras para subir la cumbre del espíritu y del corazón.Porque la agonía física, biológica , natural del cuerpo por hambre sed o frío dura poco, muy poco, pero la agonía del alma insatisfecha dura toda la vida

In the borough, three boys circled a white camel that wept because at dawn there was no other way except through the needle's eye! Oh cross! Oh, nails! Oh, thorn! Oh, thorn driven to the bone until the planet rust to pieces!

En la tierra encuentro una profunda sugestión de pobreza. Y amo la pobreza por sobre todas las cosas. No la pobreza sórdida y hambrienta, sino la pobreza bienaventurada, simple, humilde, como el pan moreno.