Quotes About Spirituality

If reading the Bible intently and seriously gives breadth and depth to one's mind (and it certainly does), why not also the Mengzi? or the Bhagavad Gita? or Ch?shingura? There is more than one "great conversation" in the world, and more than one way to furnish a soul.

Man is a religious being; the heart instinctively seeks for a God. Whether he worships on the banks of the Ganges, prays with his face upturned to the sun, kneels toward Mecca or, regarding all space as a temple, communes with the Heavenly Father according to the Christian creed, man is essentially devout.

Activists are quick to pick up on the preaching, the healing, and the casting out stuff. They too often overlook that Christ's call was first and foremost "to be with" Christ. Being must precede doing.

Each person is like a beautiful flower growing in Gods garden. Every soul is a child of creation, and is worthy of all the blessings and beauties of the gift of life.

Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.

It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.

As the oil is in the olive, so is the teshuvah, repentance, hidden within sin.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

In the presence of God himself man stands always like a solitary tree in the wilderness.

Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.

What do we mean by spiritual development? Surely, the broadening and deepening of the mind till it regards the world in its true perspective, and the strengthening of the character so that the will is a tempered and unerring weapon in the charge of a man's soul. And this end is to be achieved only by the exercise of the mind upon the largest possible manifold of experience, and by the conflict of character with the alien forces of the world.

I've often told people who ask if there is a God: Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things they do, and you'll become a believer!

Most of you who are reading this book feel a deep-down ancient bond, a connection between yourself and horses.

Buckminster Fuller

I am the miracle.

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property.

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself

That worship which is directed by divine precept is performed without the desire of reward.