Quotes About Spirituality

No man has seen God. No man has seen Lucifer. No man that I've ever talked to! It's just a useful way of looking at the world. And seeing into it.

To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.

Descend lower, descend only Into the world of perpetual solitude, World not world, but that which is not world, Internal darkness, deprivation And destitution of all property, Desiccation of the world of sense, Evacuation of the world of fancy, Inoperancy of the world of spirit;

Without Christianity we might, of course, merely sink into an apathetic decline

You are not here to verify, instruct yourself, or inform curiosity or carry report. You are here to kneel where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupation of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.

Spirituality is not just about having a flash of insight or epiphany; it is about building a foundation that will change you inside and out.

I liken a life without daily spiritual practice to a house built on sand.

In the dust of Her feet are the hosts of heaven/and Her star sequined hair/ Is crowned with a coven of six and seven/Blue suns burning there. —VICTOR H. ANDERSON (IN HIS POEM "QUAKORALINA," IN Thorns of the Blood Rose)

May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.

With each breath in, we breathe in life; each exhalation breathes out connection to all living things. There is no part of our lives that is not part of the sacred. "Re-member.

A life that includes daily spiritual practice is a house built on a strong foundation.

Destiny will always make someone angry, but better that person be angry with you than for you to be angry with you. I guarantee you will end up an angry person the day you awaken spiritually and realize that you've adhered to everyone's priorities except your own.

I do not know much about gods;but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable . . .

No place of grace for those who avoid the face No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the voice

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Where shall the word be found, where will the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence...

We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

We die with the dying; See, they depart, and we go with them. We are born with the dead: See, they return, and bring us with them.

What life have you if you have not life together? There is no life that is not in community, And no community not lived in praise of GOD.

I don't know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of heaven in twenty centuries have bought us farther from God and nearer to the dust

the communication/of the dead is tongued with fire beyond/the language of the living--The Little Gidding

A people without religion will in the end find out that it has nothing to live for.