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Quotes About Spirituality

Science is about learning 'what something is' and spirituality is about knowing 'who I am'. The
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Cuando consideras que un símbolo, o un lugar, o un momento, o una persona o un acto es sagrado, entonces toda tu atención deja de estar dividida y se integra.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Free from feverishness or desires in the mind, united with your Being, centered, when you act without expecting something from it, without wanting to grab or take anything, your action becomes perfect and free from blemishes.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Self realisation is living in a state of love which is unconditional, and living in a state of joy which is unconditional
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Love is not an Emotion, It is your very Existence.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Hear my prayer, O Lady: upon a firm rock establish my mind. Be thou to me a tower of strength: protect me from the face of the cruel destroyer. Be thou to him terrible as an army in battle array: and may he fall living into the depths of hell. For thou art shining and terrible: a cloud full of dew, and the rising dawn. Thou art beautiful and bright as the full moon: thy sacred aspect is as when the sun shines in its strength.
~ St Bonaventure
The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.
~ St Frances de Sales
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
~ St Francis of Assisi
At night a hooded monk passed by where there were no lamps. I could not see his face. I only heard these words he kept repeating: "Teach me, dear Lord, all that you know." I knew instantly a great treasure had entered my soul.
~ St Teresa of Avila
I wanted to live, but saw clearly that I was not living - but rather wrestling with the shadow of death. There was no one to give me life, and I was not able to take it.
~ St Teresa of Avila
Any true ecstast is a sign you are going in the right direction...don't let any prude tell you otherwise
~ St Teresa of Avila
That name--my conception of Him--extended to me a hand that led to a place where even His divine name could not exist. Why?
~ St Teresa of Avila
Don't be lazy. Descend. You will find life in your heart. There you must live.
~ St Theophan the Recluse
Get out of the mind and into the heart.
~ St Theophan the Recluse
All things, by desiring their own perfection, desire God Himself.
~ St Thomas Aquinas
In as much as love grows in you, so in you beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
~ St. Augustine
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
~ St. Augustine
The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
~ St. Augustine
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
~ St. Augustine
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues: hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
~ St. Augustine
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
~ St. Augustine
There is no salvation outside the church.
~ St. Augustine
The good Christian should beware of astrologers. The danger already exists that astrologers have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
~ St. Augustine
I will pass then beyond this power of my nature also, rising by degrees unto Him Who made me.
~ St. Augustine