Quotes About Spirituality

There shall be no more death, Because we have already seen all that, Its old and we are tired of it, And now we need something new, And this new thing is Eternal Life

In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.

Boris Pasternak

And, peering into those dark gulfs, Empty, without beginning or end, And sweating blood, he prayed to his Father That this cup of death might pass.

Dios os contempla, mierdosos, y se avergüenza de vosotros...

Ici on croit en Dieu. Et c'est pas le curé qui nous en empêchera. Il sait seulement pas à quoi ça sert, Dieu.

I'm Catholic In My Complications And Buddhist In My Aspirations' ~George O'dowd

To tell you the truth, Father, I don't think God has a favorite football team, or a favorite religion.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious!

Well, the devil may work against us for all he's worth, but God sends us men when we want them.

Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o'-the-wisp to man.

Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o'-the-wisp to man.

Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall

Saint Bridget said she was sorry to hear it. But I do not think I am the proper person to help you. I look after milkmaids and dairymen. I encourage the butter to come and the cheeses to ripen. I have nothing to do with cheese that has been eaten by the wrong person. Saint Nicholas looks after thieves and stolen property. Or there is Saint Alexander of Comana who loves Charcoal Burners. Perhaps, she added hopefully, you would like to pray to one of them?

I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: Oh My God Oh My God.

He cannot be seen, neither above, nor across, nor in the middle. He is beyond grasp. There is no image that is true to His from. His name is glory itself. Svetasvatara Upanishad - Chapt 4 - 19

There is an ocean of difference between a real all-renouncing devotee of God and a householder devotee. A real sanny?si, a real devotee who has renounced the world, is like a bee. The bee will not light on anything but a flower. It will not drink anything but honey. But a devotee leading the worldly life is like a fly. The fly sits on a festering sore as well as on a

Subtle are the ways of dharma. One cannot realize God if one has even the least trace of desire. A thread cannot pass through the eye of a needle if it has the smallest fibre sticking out.

As the sun, revealer of all objects to the seer, is not harmed by the sinful eye, nor by the impurities of the objects it gazes on, so the one Self, dwelling in all, is not touched by the evils of the world. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg. 35)

As fire, though one, takes the shape of every object which it consumes, so the Self, though one, takes the shape of every object in which it dwells. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg. 35)

I cannot say that I know Brahman fully. Nor can I say that I know him not.... Nor do I know that I know him not.

The right relation between prayer and conduct, wrote Archbishop Temple, is not that conduct is supremely important and prayer may help it, but that prayer is supremely important and conduct tests it.

He is within and without: He lives in the live and the lifeless: Subtle beyond mind's grasp; so near to us, so utterly distant: Undivided, He seems to divide into objects and creatures; Send creation forth from Himself, He upholds and withdraws it; Light of all lights, He abides beyond our ignorant darkness; Knowledge, the one thing real we may study or know, the heart's dweller.

If we attempt nothing more than a rigid negative control of the waves of desire, without raising waves of love, compassion and devotion to oppose them, then the result may be even more tragic.