Quotes About Spirituality

How happy are those who believe that they can pray and be helped, or even, without being helped, be listened to.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

Everything is full of gods, cousin James once said, quoting somebody.

There is a deep foundation of my being which knows not of time and change and is still and ever with Hartley, in that good place where we once were.

In so far as there were mysteries and depths in my life I kept them secret from Christ and his soldiery. I was more moved by animals than I was by Jesus.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.

Religion will never show the way.

As he reached the door of the chapel and turned back for a last look, he saw that the Virgin too was sad and lonely; the most alone human being God ever put on earth.

He was an indifferent Christian but the afternoon called for gratitude and belief.

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.

Nunca, en toda mi vida, ni siquiera por un momento, me he sentido tentado por ninguna religión de ningún tipo. El hecho es que no siento ningún vacío espiritual. Tengo mi filosofía de la vida, que no incluye ningún aspecto sobrenatural y que encuentro totalmente satisfactoria. En resumen, soy un racionalista y sólo creo lo que me dice la razón.

If you believe in God, then He exists.

Even the worm that crawls in the Earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter your God.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Atheism is a sort of crippled mysticism, [...] Blind nature has created all that we see, as well as all that we do not see - that's a mystical notion.

What concrete steps can I take now? I asked the voice, and it replied: Go to a house of prayer and pray. Without faith? I countered, and the voice said: You have more faith than you know.

Comparada con aquella luminosidad, hasta la muerte parecía una simple pesadilla. Ni el cielo ni el río ni las dunas estaban muertos. Todo vivía, la tierra, el sol y cada piedra. El verdadero enigma no era la muerte, sino el sufrimiento.

She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously.

There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism.

I said goodbye, kissed her, and asked her forgiveness for the sins of withholding and neglect. I thanked her for having existed, promised her that she would live on in my heart, and in her son's, begged her not to leave me, to visit me in dreams, to send me signs and clues, to return incarnated in every beautiful young woman I saw on the street, and to appear to me in spirit during the darkest hours of the night and in the days of the midday Sun.

The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level.

ella les demostró que la muerte no es un impedimento insalvable para la comunicación entre quienes se aman de verdad.