Quotes About Spirituality

He told friends that this ancient Hindu text—"The Lord's Song"—was "the most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

Man is a creature whose substance is faith. What his faith is, he is.

Auch Gott ist immer nur in denjenigen, der an ihn glaubt.

I do pray for those who wish me evil. This is the prayer: As you said in Psalm 79:12 'And render unto our neighbors SEVENFOLD into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.' Let all their evil against me be brought SEVENFOLD back to the sender, according to the Bible. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.' - STRONG by Kailin Gow

All I can say is...God is Great! And All Beliefs that Teach People to Be Good and Decent to Each Other. "- Strong: Philosophies by Kailin Gow

Without Belief, there is No Magic. - Kailin Gow

One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories and what remains behind?

Zen is a name derived from the Sanscrit word Dhyana, which signifies meditation.

Welcome to thee, O sword of eternity! Through Buddha And through Daruma alike Thou hast cleft thy way.

the Taoist Absolute was the Relative.

In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.

If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the Way. I have not yet learnt to be truly human. For it is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.

Such, then, is our God: unknowable in his essence, yet known in his energies; beyond and above all that we can think or express, yet closer to us than our own heart.

Christianity is more than a theory about the universe, more than teachings written down on paper; it is a path along which we journey—in the deepest and richest sense, the way of life.

Joyful thanksgiving, so far from being escapist or sentimental, is on the contrary entirely realistic—but with the realism of one who sees the world in God, as the divine creation.

Images and thoughts will constantly rise up within us. Let them recede into the background. In the foreground, put Jesus.

For me to be a Spirit-bearer is to realize all the distinctive characteristics in my personality; it is to become truly free, truly myself in my uniqueness.

As we read the Bible, we are all the time gathering information, wrestling with the sense of obscure sentences, comparing and analyzing. But this is secondary. The real purpose of Bible study is much more than this—to feed our love for Christ, to kindle our hearts into prayer, and to provide us with guidance in our personal life.

To be a Christian is to be a traveller. Our situation, say the Greek Fathers, is like that of the Israelite people in the desert of Sinai: we live in tents, not houses, for spiritually we are always on the move. We are on a journey through the inward space of the heart, a journey not measured by the hours of our watch or the days of the calendar, for it is a journey out of time into eternity.

We think the Trinity, speak the Trinity, breathe the Trinity.

The Jesus Prayer is not only Christ-centered but Trinitarian.

The Trinity is not a philosophical theory but the living God whom we worship; and so there comes a point in our approach to the Trinity when argumentation and analysis must give place to wordless prayer. "Let

I did not see sin", says Julian of Norwich in her Revelations, "for I believe that it has no kind of substance, no share in being; nor can it be recognized except by the pain caused by it.

the ultimate purpose of the spiritual Way is not just a person who says prayers from time to time, but a person who is prayer all the time.