Quotes About Spirituality

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

That would be all nice and simple, wouldn't it? Be good and go to heaven; be bad and go to hell. Black and white. Rules to live by, to keep everybody civilized. But life isn't simple, so I don't know why we expect death to be. What there is . . . is continued existence. Complex, multilayered, and unique to every individual. Just like life is.

If there is no God, there can be no magic

It made no sense to him, this idea that some people got God and some people didn't.

Let go of your small self and become your true self.

God created the world to be praised on the subtle nature of his existence.

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.

The sound of life has divine silence.

Theists and atheists are equally religious.

True love is like religion. It is full of devotion and free of doubt.

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.

Why do we believe in things we cannot see?

terms tend to become dead counters in a futile, spiritually obstructive semantic game, for they describe mystic experience that cannot be exposed to the common light of day without devaluation and dilution of meaning.

Touching people's lives in a positive way is as close as I can get to an idea of religion.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

Much spiritual self-help today fails because the focus remains exclusively on the self How can I grow? How can I experience God more fully? How can I access the power of the Holy Spirit? How can I develop my faith? All of these are limited questions that lead to disappointment because they do not focus on God. The unison voice of the classical spiritual teachers recounts that spiritual growth always begins with an awareness of the character and nature of God. God starts the process; we respond.

Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money

At the baptismal ceremony the child was, therefore, exorcised (with the obvious implication that it had previously been possessed by the Devil), anointed with chrism (consecrated oil and balsam) and signed with the cross in holy water. Around its head was bound a white cloth (chrisom), in which it would be buried if it should die in infancy.

By caring for the soul faithfully, every day, we step out of the way and let our full genius emerge.

There might be different ways of being dead. Like there are different ways of believing God.

What you are is God's gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift back to God.

It was a little like having religion. The world was a more interesting place if there was more to it than met the eye.