Quotes About Spirituality

Speaking the Lord's name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use foul language. We do not curse or defame. We do not use the Lord's name in vain. It is not difficult to become perfect in avoiding a swearing habit, for if one locks his mouth against all words of cursing,... he is en route to perfection in that matter.

Brethren and sisters, the day of miracles is not passed except for those whose faith has passed.

How wonderful that God should endow us with this sensitive yet strong guide we call a conscience! Someone has aptly re-marked that "conscience is a celestial spark which God has put into every man for the purpose of saving his soul.

I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns. I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more, I find it easier to abide their counsel.

I find that when I get casual in my relationshsip with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns.

As we lose ourselves in service to others, we find greater spirituality and happiness.

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

To love another person is to help them love God.

He who would win high spiritual degrees, must pass endless tests and examinations. But most are anxious only to bribe the examiner.

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

All can be done if the god-touch is there.

Transform enjoying into an even and objectless ecstasy; let all thyself be bliss. This is thy goal.

An instant's visitor the godhead shone. On life's thin border awhile the Vision stood And bent over earth's pondering forehead curve. Interpreting a recondite beauty and bliss In colour's hieroglyphs of mystic sense, It wrote the lines of a significant myth Telling of a greatness of spiritual dawns, A brilliant code penned with the sky for page.

I was much plagued by Satan, until I found that it was God who was tempting me; then the anguish of him passed out of my soul for ever.

To commit adultery with God is the perfect experience for which the world was created.

There are two ways of avoiding the snare of woman; one is to shun all women and the other to love all beings.

When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellent, but I could no longer find them.

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

In a word, godhead; to remake ourselves in the divine image.

The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.

Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values.

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.