Quotes About Spirituality

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos.

Color is nothing, I do not even notice it, I know only one thing, which is the purity of my conscience and the whiteness of my soul.

Voici des siècles que l'Europe a stoppé la progression des autres hommes et les a asservis à ses desseins et à sa gloire ; des siècles qu'au nom d'une prétendue "aventure spirituelle" elle étouffe la quasi-totalité de l'humanité. Regardez-la aujourd'hui basculer entre la désintégration atomique et la désintégration spirituelle/

I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.

Die Inspiration war mein Gott und ist es geblieben.

The first power that meets us at the threshold of the soul's domain is the power of imag­ination.

A soul cannot develop and progress without an appropriate body, because it is the physical body that furnishes the material for its development.

He who cannot evolve a world within his own soul needs the external world to evolve his soul.

At the peak of human gnosis, man's knowledge of God may appear associated with the love of God. An early Sufi is said to have re- marked that he loved God, because God had bestowed upon him, among other favors, his knowledge of Him.

One of the early Muslims, Ubâdah b. a - âmit (d. ca. 34/654–55), exhorted his son al-Walîd on his deathbed in these words, as reported by a-abarî: "You will not be God-fearing, and you will not achieve knowledge until you believe in God and in predestination good or bad."54 Knowledge is clearly conceived here as coming after faith, which appears to be the more primitive and simpler achievement.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

If there is a disease in the preaching that I hear most often, it's not that what the minister says is wrong. It's that it is just too small.

I believe that at the center of the universe there dwells a loving spirit who longs for all that's best in all of creation, a spirit who knows the great potential of each planet as well as each person, and little by little will love us into being more than we ever dreamed possible. That loving spirit would rather die than give up on any one of us.

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.

I realize that it isn't very fashionable to talk about some things being holy; nevertheless, if we ever want to rid ourselves of personal and corporate emptiness, brokenness, loneliness, and fear, we have to allow ourselves room for that which we can not see, hear, touch , or control.

All I can do is be myself. I've had the grace to be able to do that. I walk into the studio and I think, 'Let some word that is heard be Thine.

The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.

The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted

Science does nothing for man spiritually, and organized religion demands blind faith in illogical liturgy that was never meant to be taken literally!

As I ponder my pilgrim's progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn't make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn't the one driving.

Beauty must mean something. God must know something about how beauty works on the human heart. He must have made us that way.

Thinking and talking about God is not communion with God. Only prayer is prayer.

C. S. Lewis wrote that we think at first God is going to turn us into a "decent little cottage," but as deep, wrenching changes continue to be made, we realize that he is building a palace. "He intends to come and live in it himself.