Quotes About Spirituality

instead of becoming a strong and ardent and generous Catholic, I simply slipped into the ranks of the millions of tepid and dull and sluggish and indifferent Christians who live a life that is still half animal, and who barely put up a struggle to keep the breath of grace alive in their souls.

Nourished by the Sacraments and formed by the prayer and teaching of the Church, we need seek nothing but the particular place willed for us by God within the Church. When we find that place, our life and our prayer both at once become extremely simple.

There are so many voices heard today asserting that one should have religion or believe, but all they mean is that one should associate himself, sign up with some religious group. Stand up and be counted. As if religion were somehow primarily a matter of gregariousness...

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…

The conscious mind is small and weak compared to the emotional and spiritual power that we call daimonic. It may be the urge to create, take risks, and love. Life may be simple when you avoid the daimon of love, but it is also less passionate and meaningful.

Your first task is to find the place where your soul is at home.

Soul' is not a thing, but a quality or a dimension of experiencing life and ourselves.

The problem in the modern spiritual landscape is not only a plethora of genuine, useful material but also a marketplace teeming with questionable ideas, practices, and leaders.

As the religious authorities often say, the institution is human, while the substance of the religion is transcendent.

To be religious even in a personal way, you have to wake up and find your own portals to wonder and transcendence.

Your challenge, then, is to create a religion of your own by being secular in a religious way, or religious in a secular way. You can learn how to see the secular from a religious angle, and vice versa.

At this deep level of personal myth and innate constitution, spirituality and psychology overlap and conjoin. For that reason, paying close attention to dreams aids any spiritual activity, keeping it grounded and in contact with the elements that have shaped you. Dream work becomes as important as meditation, quiet reading, and prayer, and fits tightly into a developed spiritual way of life.

The whole area of religion and spirituality invites flimflam and is filled with

The one ingredient missing in much of modern spirituality is intelligence. Yet, when you examine the religious traditions of the world you find study, study, and more study.

It might be better to be more of a skeptic than a believer, less open-minded and more critical. The problem in the modern spiritual

A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level of reality.

Now is not the time to tolerate the religions of the world; it's time to seek them out and study them and be affected by them.

You look until you see nothing tangible, and that is God.

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

The nheart is deceitful above all things, And 4desperately wicked; Who can know it?

My own mind is my own church.

What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? --Gravity's Rainbow, V699

There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden place, the way into it is not obvious, the geography is as much spiritual as physical. If you should happen upon it, your strongest certainty is not that you have discovered it but returned to it. In a single great episode of light, you remember everything.

I want to break out – to leave this cycle of infection and death. I want to be taken in love: so taken that you and I, and death, and life, will be gathered inseparable, into the radiance of what we would become.