Quotes About Spirituality

People in pain have enough problems without some well-meaning folks trying to short-circuit the grief process by declaring that everything is a good event sent from God.

Even those of us who have given our heart to God face new temptations and decisions every day.

13Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

For some of us faith comes easily. For others, especially if we have experienced betrayal, it may be more difficult. Sometimes we must exhaust all of our own resources in trying to overcome our addictive "disease" before we will risk believing in a higher Power.

We could try the Turin test," said Lobsang. "Oh, machines have been able to pass the Turing test for years." "No, the Turin test. We both pray for an hour, and see if God can tell the difference.

the Christian monastic Anthony the Abbot referred to "created nature" as a "book," one always at his "disposal" whenever he wanted "to read God's words.

We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

Without the heart it's not worship, it's a stage play.

The fundamental experience of human suffering is the experience of alienation from the self, from the source—from God.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A wretched coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress

David S. Reynolds. Walt Whitman. Oxford University Press: USA, 2005

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation. Shambhala: Boston, 1976

Stephen Mitchell. Tao te Ching. Harper Perennial: New York, 1991

René Guénon. Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines. Sophia Perennis: Hillsdale, NY, 2001

For the Time Being, Annie Dillard. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1999

Thomas Merton. A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals, Thomas Merton, Jonathan Montaldo. HarperCollins: New York

Struggle," says Swami Kripalu, "changes an ordinary human into a spiritually awake person.

The Gnostic Gospels. Vintage: New York, 1989

The Tao te Ching says, "If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever.

De Caussade nails this point: "This work in our souls cannot be accomplished by cleverness, intelligence, or any subtlety of mind, but only by completely abandoning ourselves to the divine action, becoming like metal poured into a mold

One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.

Each and every person has the light of God within," she said.