Quotes About Spirituality

Yo nací un día que Dios estuvo enfermo, grave...

Remain in the eternal nebula, there, in the polyessence of a sweet nonbeing.

Murió mi eternidad y estoy velándola.

How will you know when you reach a higher level of prayer? One way is to see an increase in concrete, measurable answers to your prayers.

Legalism is seeking to achieve forgiveness from GOD and acceptance by GOD through my obedience to GOD

We may assume God gave us music just to make us happy, not holy; he actually gave us music to make us happy and holy.

Transcendental Meditation

It is harder in many ways to live in the middle than at the edges. Much harder to interpret as you see fit, because then you have no assurance you are doing right in the eyes of God, no confidence you will be rewarded in the afterlife

I was not always a Muslim, but once I was led into the absorption of prayer and the mysteries of the Qur'an, something troubled in me became still.

The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.

Taking the guest's hand, Love asks, "Who made the eyes but I?" (11–12). This brilliant sally asserts that man cannot look away from God, since everything we look at—and indeed our mental faculties as well as our organs of sight—were made by God. These "eyes" include the "I" of personal identity.

Man's spiritual trajectory ends in the rubbish heap of his own mother-born body.

Religion gives you a huge vision of the universe and human existence. If you take away religion, you have to replace it with something else. So today the educated class worships politics.

He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near. It is he who, whether it be far or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love. —Augustine of Hippo

If anything is more irresistible than Jesus, it's Mickey.

Under what circumstances," she'd mused to Martin the hairdresser one Sunday morning in bed, "could you envision Jesus Christ, a humble carpenter, hawking rosaries at the Vatican Gift Shop?

In the meadow, in adoration: am I not yours?

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours.

there is no deeper religious feeling than the feeling for the natural world. I wouldn't separate the world of nature from the religious instinct...I would not even object to saying that the sense of awe before the grandeur of nature is itself a religious experience.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So

Do Buddhists believe in God, or not?" Ellie asked on their way to have dinner with the Abbot. "Their position seems to be," Vaygay replied dryly, "that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist." As