Quotes About Spirituality

The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts… his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.

Therefore fighters are not of Christ's kingdom, and are without Christ's kingdom, for his kingdom stands for peace and righteousness.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

Shaman ninjas. Perfect. Now my life was complete.

Praise the Lord and get the fireballs ready.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

Spiritual service, be it of priest or teacher, was not to be repaid in gold or silver, not because it was valueless but because it was invaluable.

Some people believe eagles are messengers and that they appear when there's something we need to do in our lives.

Os acontecimentos graves, felizes ou infelizes, não alteram a alma de um homem, mas precisam-na, tal como uma rajada de vento revela a forma de uma árvore ao varrer num ápice as folhas mortas; trazem para a luz aquilo que estava relegado na sombra; inclinam o espírito na direcção em que passará a crescer.

Doubts can lead to deeper faith by forcing us to look more closely at what we believe. And why.

But my core belief—that no matter what happens, God is with me—never wavers. And it's a great comfort to know that once you turn your life over to him, you never have to face anything alone again." He

God doesn't expect perfection. All he asks is that we learn from our mistakes and try to do better in the future. He forgives us far more easily than we often forgive ourselves. He also heals the brokenhearted and saves those whose spirit is crushed.

Of course we live in dreams and by dreams, and even in a disciplined spiritual life, in some ways especially there, it is hard to distinguish dream from reality. In ordinary human affairs humble common sense comes to one's aid. For most people common sense is moral sense. But you seem to have deliberately excluded this modest source of light. Ask yourself, what really happened between whom all those years ago? You've made it into a story, and stories are false.

Magic besieges the religious life and men yearn to speak the language of angels.

Dora watched him for a while, nervously, and then returned to scanning the whole group. Seeing them all together like that she felt excluded and aggressive, and Noel's exhortations came back to her. They had a secure complacent look about them: the spiritual ruling class; and she wished suddenly that she might grow as large and fierce as a gorilla and shake the flimsy doors off their hinges, drowning the repulsive music in a savage carnivorous yell.

Sometimes he would have liked to pray, but what is prayer if there is nobody there?

Lucas continued, speaking pensively in a dreamy tone, The painters, you know, the painters, what they did for Christianity!

But there can be intuitions even here of a more sublime agony.

I am the nonsense priest of the nonsense god!

We all love a glimpse of Lucas, it's a religious experience.

Everything is full of gods

If I could only pray, he thought, if there was only some reservoir of force out of which I could draw something extra.

Religion is having an intense attitude and no time off... religion is about those awful deep things.

What is God anyway? A dark place —