Quotes About Spirituality

on Georg Trakl:] it was always inconceivable to me that he could live. His madness wrestled with godly things.

Die Abergläubigsten sind ja stets die in religiösen Dingen Glaubenslosen.

It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." - Meister Eckhardt

The problem I have with all this religion stuff is that I can't relate to it. I think most people got into 'cos it gave them something to do on a Sunday, but since all the shops are now open it isn't required as much.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

It would be all right if I could pray in this way, or in that other way, if I were just able to give You the only thing You want: not my thoughts and feelings and resolutions, but myself. But that is just what I am unable to do, because in the superficiality of the ordinary routine into which my life is cast, I am a stranger to myself. And how can I seek You, being so distant, how can I give myself up to You, when I haven't been able as yet to find myself?

I am an atheist who says his prayers.

The flame of my life burns low Under the cluttered days, Like a fire of leaves. But always a little blue, sweet-smelling smoke Goes up to God.

Line upon line, a little here and there, We scrape together wisdom with slow care. Wherefore? To blossom in a churchyard rose, Or to go with the spirit--if it goes?

The night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee…

My favorite is: 2 Corinthians 10:5: "Casting down imaginations . . . and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

When my mom was alive, I'd gone to church more often. She'd told me once that she didn't believe that any one religion was doing it right, but that she was open to the fact that there might be a higher power. Sometimes she felt it at church, sometimes she'd felt it on the ocean" -Lucy

Trauma or no, I would have been trans no matter what body I'd been born with. Tell the doctors that we exist for the health of humanity, which needs to find wholeness and belief in complexity. Girl in boy's body or boy inside a girl; call it fate or biology, will, or spiritual choice. But I was not born in the wrong body. -Scott Turner Schofield, "The Wrong Body

I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.

I've always lived here, by the sea. I was a beach brat. I was born riding the peak of a crest of a wave. I was born with salt in my eyes. No, I mean it. I was conceived right down there on that beach. Six years old and surfing. It's all that sea in me. That's what makes my eyes change color. I've got waves inside. The ocean runs through me, man.

I must work on my mind. For now I realise: Everyone of us has a heaven inside.

all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction

The Dreaming is now. The Dreaming is always; forever; it circles around and around. It never ends. It's always happening, and us mob, we're part of it, all the time, everywhere, and every-when too.

He had seen God in the night sky long before he understood its patterns.