Quotes About Spirituality

If complete enlightenment demands relinquishing the self, then complete enlightenment implies the acceptance of mortality. Not that there isn't more to being enlightened than accepting that our lives are brief and end when we did. But I do think it's a requirement.

Catharism placed no value on one sex over the other; not only did it attract women as converts, but it invited them into the clergy.

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

They did not hear Grimble, as he lay dying, chant in the true voice of the Boreal Owl, in tones like chimes in the night, an ancient owl prayer, "I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly."

She wanted them to live in union with God and with one another. Silence was at the root of that union, for God was 'the friend of silence':

We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life.

Of necessity, theirs must often be an interior silence, surrounded as they were for much of the time by noise and restlessness. To make possible true interior silence she told her Sister they would practice

to her Christ was actual and real, and for those prepared to perceive this reality suffering need be neither senseless nor solitary

If we can find a purpose for accepting his cross as Jesus Christ accepted his own then one will never feel alone.

In the words of India's President Girl, Mother Teresa was 'among those emancipated souls who have transcended all barriers of race, religion, creed and nation.

There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.

Faith is not knowledge. It's not static. It's not a "thing" we can grasp. Rather, it's an act, occurrence, mode of being. It's a mix of actions that reflect God in us and through us. It's a myriad of -ing words that are active, tangible, and always in motion. Faith is a verb. It's meant to be practiced.

On the one side was Darcie Burrell—a reed-thin woman with a permanently conflicted expression, as though, deep inside her, someone was trying to bathe a cat. She attended our church, and was famous for praying over people who later

We're too absorbed in communicating among ourselves to worry about an almighty architect.

The seven big dogs are Eleggua, Obatalla, Chango, Oshun, Yemaya, Babalu Aye, and Oggun. Each

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. KAREN SUNDE, PLAYWRIGHT

When you sing, think of birds. When you dance, think of fish (Or snakes. Doesn't matter.). When you play music, think of water, and when you act, think of god.

Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.

One may practice zazen for twenty, thirty, even fifty years, and go through failures and frustrations, but every defeat and time of despair is in reality a gain rather than a loss. Any experience is to be regarded as a part of one's assets.

I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

Christianity isn't a religion, it's a relationship. And as we all know, a relationship requires a high commitment to communication.

From now on we recognize no one according to the flesh" (2 Corinthians 5:16)—you are a brand-new creature! Old things have passed away and all things have become new. Now, beloved of God, live accordingly.

One thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:13-14).