Quotes About Spirituality

When we join ourselves to Christ, when we believe in him and follow him as Lord, his life flows into us like a transfusion of blood into a weak patient.

Then heart and soul, body and mind, memory and will, the very breath of life itself, everything that you have and are unites in gratitude and joy, tuned like a violin string to the name of Jesus. This "descent" is a gift of the Holy Spirit, not something you can force. So you may say that you are practicing the Jesus Prayer,

Orthodox spirituality recognizes delusion as a genuine danger (plani in Greek, prelest in Russian). The sure sign of someone far gone in delusion is a refusal to consider that she might be wrong.

The Jesus Prayer teaches you how to "lean just right," combining joy, trust, penitence, and gratitude, so you can find yourself in his presence.

Death is the result of sin, not a punishment. It is a consequence.

It is what we really are, and not a legal fiction, that will encounter the Light of Christ when this life ends. It's what we have actually made of ourselves that will be "tested by fire" (1 Peter 1:7).

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life -- physical, intellectual, and moral life.

Go where your best prayers take you.

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

We have a belief that we need not believe in, no dogmas, no ritual, no mythology, no church, no priest, no holy book--what a relief!

Self, stands in contradistinction to the Hindu doctrine of Atman

It is a nothingness unattainable by the intellect.

The true Self or Buddha-nature is precisely this nothingness or emptiness (sunyata).

It takes place on a dimension higher than that of science (or scientism) or common sense.

Every man must get to Heaven his own way.

The only way to Heaven is "G D'SWAY"!

All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way.

They always win who side with God.

A spiritual life, without a very large allowance of disquietude in it, is no spiritual life at all. It is but a flattering superstition of self-love.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Ebrahim made him understand that, no matter what, he could not advance beyond the white line, for that would be in defiance of God's laws.

He who is near the Church is often far from God.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.