Quotes About Spirituality

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Mass celebrated on the hood of a jeep with shells bursting all around is as much the Mass as the liturgy celebrated in St John Lateran by the Bishop of Rome himself.

It is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read.

We named her Kalisa. Dat name, da essence…it mean given to God. I guess

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

The experience of death must ultimately be the experience of life, or else it is only a wraith.

Ä°blis: Müzik her ne kadar Hristiyanl?k taraf?ndan kullan?l?p geliÅŸtirilse de, ayn? zamanda reddedildi ve ÅŸeytani bir alan olarak d??land?-iÅŸte görüyorsun. Müzik fevkalade teolojik bir mesele; t?pk? günah gibi, benim gibi...

Even on a personal level art is a form of heightened living. It gives greater pleasures, it consumes faster. It stamps the features of its servants with the signs of imaginary and spiritual adventures, and it produces, even in the most cloister-like atmosphere, a certain fastidiousness, an over-refinement, an exhaustion and curiosity of the nerves, in a way even a life of the most outrageous passions and delights could scarcely effect it.

the lover is more blessed than the beloved because God resides in the former, not the latter—probably

La cama es el lugar donde el amante se une a la amada, y se considera el símbolo del retiro contemplativo del mundo y de la criatura con objeto de encontrarse con Dios.

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Man himself is a mystery, and all humanity rests upon reverence before the mystery that is man.

Güzellik ve ruhun, heyecan ve coÅŸkuda birleÅŸmesi gibi, yaÅŸam ve ölüm de aÅŸkta birleÅŸir.

Das Ewige stimmt quietistisch. Das Menschliche ist dem Politischen im Grunde fremd.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.

In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.

We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!

It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves on the same plane as God – acting as if we had no needs, as if we were not creatures, not dependent on Him and dependent, by His will, on material things, too.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.

The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.