Quotes About Spirituality

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.... So we kid ourselves about death.... But there's a better approach. To know you're going to dies, and to be prepared for it at any time....Do what the Buddhists do...ask, Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

Ain't you supposed to have peace when you die?' You have peace,' the old woman said, 'when you make it with yourself.

What is it?" "A prayer." "For a child?" She nodded. "For me?" Another nod. "On a tree?" "Trees spend all day looking up at God.

We must be open to God's miracles.

The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.

Still, I never considered what I would do if I called for the Lord and He actually appeared before me.

In stories about life after death, the soul often floats above the good-bye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital-room ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world.

Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.

Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I read? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be?' He turned his head to his shoulder as if the bird were there now. Is today the day I die? he said.

And when gods touched something, the normal became the supernatural, the simple became the wondrous.

They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.

But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps.

Do you understand? Why we're here? This is not your heaven. It's mine.

Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that's the light.

Heaven is always thinking about us.

What did you expect the Lord to look like? Don't we always say, 'If only we could see God, we would know he was real'? What if He has finally given us a chance to see Him? Is it still not enough?

In any conversation, I was taught, there are at least three parties: you, the other person, and the Lord.

Doubt is how you find God

So many people are in pain—no matter how smart or accomplished—they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

At I Am My Brother's Keeper, there were no dues, no drives, no singles nights. Membership grew the old-fashioned way: a desperate need for God.

How can you ever be prepared to die? Do what the Buddhists do. Every day have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

Death ends a life, but not a relationship.

That's the thing, you see. Once you get your fingers on the important questions, you can't turn away from them." And which are the important questions? "As I see it, they have to do with love, responsibility, spirituality, awareness. And if I were healthy today, those would still be my issues. They should have been all along.

There is life after this life.