Quotes About Spirituality

Knowing heaven . . . is what heals us on earth.

Gradually, I had to face the fact that I could not control everything, no matter how fast my eyes darted from spot to spot. This was hard. I am not good at being vulnerable, Chika, or relying on the Lord to handle it all.

Some would say that you meet the Lord.

You can't fit the Lord in a box. But you can gather stories, tradition, wisdom, and in time, you needn't lower the shelf; God is already nearer to thee.

All right. In that final minute, I would say, 'Look, Lord, I've done X amount of good stuff on earth. I have tried to follow your teachings and to pass them on. I have loved my family. I've been part of a community. And I have been, I think, fairly good to people. "'So, Heavenly Father, for all this, what is my reward?"' And what do you think God will say? He smiled. "He'll say, 'Reward?

When you come to the end, that's where God begins."   Many

wonder if this is what dying is like, Annabelle. At first, you are so tightly connected to the world you cannot imagine letting go. In time, you surrender to a drifting phase. What comes next, I cannot say. Some would say that you meet the Lord.

It's not about having the answers in life. It's about the search for the answers, the choosing to believe in something bigger than yourself that makes the journey of faith so challenging, yet so worthwhile… That is the crazy, glorious, sometimes maddening but always satisfying in the end, journey that we call faith.

am the Lord," he whispered.

If earthly mortals were being contacted by souls in heaven, Tess, a Catholic, had been the first.

Blundering back to God. Simple as that.

Her eyes sparkle like she's about to cartwheel through a mosque.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

No believer is a bad believer.

he prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could loved in no other way.

Sufis tell of two paths to transcendence:

Religion, Pat had said to me and then I had repeated it to Charlotte, was for people who needed to believe that death was better than life.

if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And when we cease to grow, we begin to die.

Sometimes the attempt to strenghten contact with the divine is a journey.

The philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita holds that we don't actually own anything – that our nation, cars, homes, and our families ultimately belong to God. Even our own senses don't belong to us, according to the Gita.

Nothing infuriates people more than their own lack of spiritual insight.

Being dead's a drug', he says, 'you'll get hooked on it.

Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. MATT. 21:22

THE SECOND TEACHING OF ST. FRANCIS IS that we find God when we become poor enough for God to find us.