Quotes About Spirituality

i would rather be an angel than God

leaving the two loving hearts alone with their God.

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the devil may work against us for all he is worth, but God sends us men when we want them

There are darknesses in life and there are lights; you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

Prawdziwy Bóg zapÅ'acze nad wróblem, który spadÅ' z nieba. lecz Bóg zrodzony z ludzkiej pró?noÅ›ci nie dostrzega ró?nicy miÄ™dzy wróblem a orÅ'em.

Rachel showed Ulani how to work the camera. Jason explained that the device would capture and preserve the image, along with their souls.

He was alone and shackled by his neck to the wall. And he had no hope. How did a man live without hope? [You hope is in Jesus Christ. Pray to your Father in that name and he will ease your pain or shorten it]. That's what Tyndale had said in his last letter. And that's what John tried to do, though he could not kneel or even bow his head from his fixed position on the wall. (p. 365)

When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter... That is why Christ comes to us when our hearts and minds are still and silent.

When we discover the secret of being inwardly at worship while outwardly at work, we find that the soul's silence brings us to God and God to us. Silence takes us beyond the limits of consciousness and into the heart and mind and will of God.

So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

The romance of Creator and creation is far more wonderful and profound than anyone can ever capture in words.

Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire? —as quoted by Diana Butler Bass1

Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.

Through study we welcome the light of God into our minds.

There is a difference — subtle but very significant — between having faith in my faith (i.e., faith in my intellectual concepts about God — another way of saying "leaning on my own understanding") and having faith in God. There is a corresponding difference between doubting my faith and doubting God.

God is not the tribal deity of one group of "chosen" people. God is not for us and against all others. God is for us and for them, too. God loves everyone everywhere, no exceptions.

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. – Frederick Buechner

What is the most significant conversation you have every day?" People would respond piously, "Your conversation with God, of course." "No," Lewis would reply. "It's the conversation you have with yourself before you speak to God, because in that conversation with yourself, you decide whether you are going to be honest and authentic with God, or whether you are going to meet God with a false face, a mask, an act, a pretense.

Spiritual] Practices are not for know-it-alls. Practices are for those who feel the need for change, growth, development, learning. Practices are for disciples.

Brian D. McLaren

If you see Christian identity as a pathway to innocence—as many if not most Christians currently see it

Traditional theologians use another word for solidarity: incarnation