Quotes About Spirituality

You must never deprive the people of their belief in the power of the gods, and you must never deprive yourself of it either.

God's hand can be seen in any occurrence for those who are determined to find it there, but then again, so can the devil's

When my faith is getting weak And I feel like giving in You breathe into me again…

I wasn't going to have time to dash to the church down the street and dab holy water at my wrists and behind my ears; my version of Eau de Don'tbiteme.

You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believe in God. I told you of course I do - I've always had a strong sense of self.

Because love and belief were serious magic in and of themselves.

Churches crack me up. They're like money, a conspiracy of faith. Like everyone agreed to believe that not only is there a God, but he comes down and checks on folks, so long as they hang in certain places, put up altars, burn lots of candles and incense, and perform sit-stand-kneel and other wacky rituals that'd make a coven of witches look not OCD.

Figures I'd put more faith in the devil than any god.

I'm not surprised to feel myself trembling. I'm touching my goddess.

I think something more mysterious might be happening, less articulate than any of the captioned and numeraled drawings in the 'The Spiritist's Telegraph.' Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.

The clergyman and writer William Sloane Coffin said that spirituality to him meant "living the ordinary life extraordinarily well." We wake up to an ordinary day. The sky is blue. Trees sway in the breeze and birds twitter. Everything is as usual. Our hearts beat; our lungs take in air. We talk to friends. We eat dinner. We brush our teeth. And finally, when we put our heads down on our favorite pillows, we think, "This was a good, very ordinary day.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Some are called to be gardeners of souls, and she'd tended hers with the blind dedication that accepted the floods and famine along with the sunshine.

Faith is never identical with piety.

God is personal, but personal in an incomprehensible way, in so far as the conception of his personality surpasses all our views of personality.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

Faith is never identical with "piety" even if it were the purest and finest.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is Himself the way

The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.

When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?

Carol Zaleski has commented at some length on the sanitizing of the NDE for the modern feel-good market. In her book 'Otherworld Journeys', she noted that accounts of near-death experiences from Medieval times were filled with "harsh judgement scenes, purgatorial torments and infernal terrors," which have disappeared from "today's upbeat near-death literature." She quipped that the modern being of light "communicates, but never excommunicates.