Quotes About Spirituality

Love is the synthesis of contemplation and action, the meeting-point between heaven and earth, between God and humanity.

God does not hurry over things; time is his, not mine. And I, little creature, a man, have been called to be transformed into God by sharing his life. And what transforms me is the charity which he pours into my heart.

If God were attainable with the intelligence, how unjust it would be! It would have made easy the task of the wise and the great of this world, and would have made knowledge of God all but impossible for the little ones, the poor, and the ignorant. But God himself has found the way to be equally accessible to everybody. His revelation comes in love, in that faculty which we can all share.

The heart, with all its potential, loses its balance too easily when it loves a creature. It throws itself upon the creature loved and wants to possess it; and possessiveness kills. It holds on to the creature so passionately that it loses sight of the creator. Moreover it ruins the object of its love by its obsession with it. It ruins it, makes it a slave.

Only very late do we learn the price of the risk of believing, because only very late do we face up to the idea of death. This is what is difficult. Believing truly means dying. Dying to everything: to our reasoning, to our plans, to our past, to our childhood dreams, to our attachment to earth, and sometimes even to the sunlight, as at the moment of our physical death.

La iglesia no satisface expectativas, celebra misterios.

Me complace mencionar también la figura de Alessandro Manzoni - recordada en la Carta pastoral Ripartiamo da Dio!-, en cuya boca pongo, como síntesis de su espiritualidad, estas palabras: «He comprendido que con Dios no se debe perder, sino capitular», es decir, abandonarse a su misterio de amor.

Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

Upon learning to see a man becomes everything by becoming nothing. He

I really felt I had lost my body, don Juan. You did. You mean, I really didn't have a body? What do you think yourself? well, I don't know. All I can tell you is what I felt. That is all there is in reality - what you felt.

Are you angry at me, don Juan? I asked when he returned. He seemed surprised at my question. No! I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

The memorable events of a shaman's album are affairs that will stand the test of time because they have nothing to do with him, and yet he is in the thick of them. He'll always be in the thick of them, for the duration of his life, and perhaps beyond, but not quite personally.

God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil....

In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith

The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that he could silence the shadows in his heart...

Esta gente que ve pecado en todas partes está enferma del alma y, si me apuras, de los intestinos.

Don't make the mistake of confusing the word of God with the missal industry that lives off it.

The territory of humans is life, said the doctor. Death does not belong to us

I know you're not a man of faith, Edmond, but faith is found when one isn't looking for it and the day will come when your heart, and not your mind, will long for the purification of the soul.

La envidia es la religión de los mediocres. Los reconforta, responde a las inquietudes que los roen por dentro y, en último término, les pudre el alma y les permite justificar su mezquindad y su codicia hasta creer que son virtudes y que las puertas del cielo sólo se abrirán para los infelices como ellos

la fe se encuentra cuando no se busca y llegará el día en que sea su corazón, no su mente, el que anhele la purificación del alma.

Al oír tamañas blasfemias, la Bernarda se santiguaba por quintuplicado. Más tarde, por la noche, decía una oración extra por el alma poluta del señor Barceló, que tenía buen corazón, pero a quien de tanto leer se le habían podrido los sesos, como a don Quijote.