Quotes About Spirituality

and that if she ever needs to talk to her or touch her, she need only go to Belinda's peach tree and put her arms around it, and Candace will whisper to her through the branches that all is well.

Time is the narrow footpath in eternity which we walk in our magical, momentary bodies.

In Religion, he gets a lot of complaints about people talking to God in overly loud voices.

They prayed together. Jennifer's heart soared when Harvey prayed, asking God to help him lead their family and never to put her in the situation where she felt uncomfortable letting him. Her tears were near the surface by then.

No matter how much help you ask for, cultivating these spiritual qualities is something you have to do within yourself, and it requires solitude. So if you feel like locking your door, closing the blinds, and retreating from the world, this is probably a good idea. Sit with the darkness. Allow it to teach you. This is a very brave thing to do.

The Buddhadharma is not, however, associated with the practice of being a candy-ass.

real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world … If a person does not feel alone and sad, he cannot be a [spiritual] warrior at all…

She took to praying to Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit of her childhood, who had not been a jealous God, she thought, but had waited patiently for her to honor Him again.

The air she couldn't breathe was scorched, smelled like incense and tobacco, and the atmosphere was charged with an electric buzz of grace which, once you've experienced it, you will never forget.

B]ehind the mother fighting for her son's life was the priestess of the forest and the cup.

Day by day we are summoned beyond a safe theological "knowledge of description" to one of unpredictable "acquaintance.

That is really the direction in spiritual direction, as I understand it. As gently as possible, I try to say, It seems as though the light is coming from over there," and I point to it, hoping that I don't point in such a way that I block the person's view.

An encounter with God is not achieved by stripping us of our human nature, but rather by entering into it honestly, as Jesus did. As a

The holy will not be contained. We like to think we can capture, preserve, and cultivate it in buildings, liturgies, curricula, a holy land, people, language. All these, at best, are reminders that direct our attention to God.

I think you must be the very answer to my prayers - Lord Refrow

No matter where life takes you,' she said, 'the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground.

God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.

Flowers are the footprints of God.

Give me my Scallop shell of quiet.

I believe we all belong to a larger thing. If you wish, you can call it God, but God is different from religion.

I see the wise woman. And she sees me.

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?

On the metaphysical front, the burning of sage is unsucessful. House reeks of doom, and now sage too.