Quotes About Spirituality

Your relationship to God is the single most important aspect of your life. If that is not in order, nothing else will be.

The lesson for Joshua was clear: walking with God was not about a method; it was about a relationship. Earlier

Ask God to make you like Christ so that, even when you are being persecuted, you can pray, "Father, forgive them.

God taught Joshua the key to people's success is not the rung they reach on the corporate ladder but the level of intimacy they reach with God.

Don't settle for a religious life that lacks a vital relationship with Jesus Christ. When God is present, the difference will be obvious.

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

fasting, prayer and almsgiving

Everything had life to me,' he heard Enkidu murmur, 'the sky, the storm, the earth, water, wandering, the moon and its three children, salt, even my hand had life. It's gone. It's gone.

I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the life-time of his God?

But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. (Moby Dick; Chap 7 p36)

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air!

and very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another.

love is profane, since it mortally reaches toward the heaven in ye!

I might give alms to his body; but his body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach.

What could be more full of meaning?—for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear; the pulpit leads the world.

Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward worldly ties and connections?

It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell.

if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned.

Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.