Quotes About Spirituality

Our sermon today concerns the dialectic Blessings in transgression & transcendence.

See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

Believing in God had to do with a system of convictions, deep faith, things that her parents and her sister and Jonathan had, things that had never come easily to Blair.

We — you and I — are fearfully and wonderfully made. His works are wonderful (Psalm 139:1 – 5, 13 – 14).

The Lord sometimes uses sorrow in our lives to deepen us," Miss Lucy says. "This is one of those times." "Why do we have to be deep?" I wonder aloud. Miss Lucy looks at me as if she's never considered that question. "Because what good are we if we're shallow? He can use us when we have some depth. He had sorrows, so why shouldn't we?

And every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.

said that all people believe in a god—whether it's the god of hopelessness or the god of circumstances or the god of ourselves or the god of some other person. It took me a long time to figure out what my god was.

Human minds are not equipped to face the realities of nonmaterial existence on this sphere. It is too much for any mortal to bear for long." Again

High modernism is numinous through and through, as the work of art provides one of the last outposts of enchantment in a spiritually degenerate world. Postmodernism, with its notorious absence of affect, is post-numinous. It is also in a sense post-aesthetic, since the aestheticisation of everyday life extends to the point where it undermines the very idea of a special phenomenon known as art. Stretched far enough, the category of the aesthetic cancels itself out.

Richard, Kahlan said, what about Siddin? Weselan and Savidlin will be worried sick over him. Her green eyes gazed deep into his. She leaned closer, and whispered, And we have unfinished business in the spirit house. I believe there is still an apple there we have yet to finish. Her arm tightened around his waist, and a little twist of a smile came to her lips. The shape of the smile caught his breath in his throat.

A Grace connected creating the World of life, and the world of the dead in pathways of magic.

I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.

You know how to pray, don't you? Just put your hands together and hope.

Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.

Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.

Tiffany thought of the little spot in the woods where Granny Weatherwax lay. Remembered. And knew that You had been right. Granny Weatherwax was indeed here. And there. She was, in fact, and always would be, everywhere.

But…but you can't treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can't say yes please, I'll have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling and none of the Prohibition of Images, they give me wind. Its table d´hôte or nothing, otherwise…well, it would be silly.

And it came to pass that in that time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: 'Psst!'

A witch sees through things and around things. A witch sees farther than most, a witch sees things from the other side. A witch knows where she is, who she is and when she is ...

As for me, some days I believe in God, and some days I do not. Then Dodger said, "Is that allowed?" Solomon pushed the door open and then fussily began locking it up again behind him. Dodger, you fail to understand the unique arrangements between Jewish people and God.

It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing' people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money.

Every time I pass church I stop and make a visit So when I'm carried in feet first God won't say, Who is it?

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.