Quotes About Spirituality

Atheism or materialism means treating the dead as if they were unborn, I won't.

for Buddhists, Shintoists, and Hindus, religion is practical and spiritual philosophy, with a code of ethics

for Buddhists, Shintoists, and Hindus, religion is practical and spiritual philosophy, with a code of ethics (and for some, a cosmogony).

values unscheduled meditation.

We perceive consciousness as the highest manifestation of life. The higher the form of consciousness, the more advanced the form of life.

Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

On such a Sabbath morn, were we pure enough to be its medium, we should be conscious of the earth's natural worship ascending through our frames, on whatever spot of ground we stood.

Growing as they did, however, out of the old earth, the flowers still sent a fresh and sweet incense up to their Creator...

What can a ruined soul, like mine, effect towards the redemption of other souls??—or a polluted soul towards their purification?

I have no heavenly father.

And as for Owen Warland, he looked placidly at what seemed the ruin of his life's labor, and which was yet no ruin. He had caught a far other butterfly than this. When the artist rose high enough to achieve the beautiful, the symbol by which he made it perceptible to mortal senses became of little value in his eyes while his spirit possessed itself in the enjoyment of the reality.

Is there no reality in the penitence thus sealed and witnessed by good works?

He had lost his faith in the invisible, and now prided himself, as such unfortunates invariably do, in the wisdom which rejected much that even his eye could see, and trusted confidently in nothing but what his hand could touch. This is the calamity of men whose spiritual part dies out of them...

the holiest among us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward.

It must suffice, that, though my form be absent, my inner man goes constantly to church, while many, whose bodily presence fills the accustomed seats, have left their souls at home.

When the artist rose high enough to achieve the beautiful, the symbol by which he made it perceptible to mortal senses became of little value in his eyes while his spirit possessed itself in the enjoyment of the reality.

Robinson's fierce quest for spiritual purity had been tempered by the realization that little was to be gained by arrogance and anger.

Our gods did not come to us in any specific form, but we held them in our hearts and understood them in our own way.

Nihai analizde, dine bula?an insanlar yaln?zca kendi ki?isel mutluluklar?n?n pe?inde gibidir. Yan?l?yor muyum?

We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!

You...you lost your faith? No...just my convictions. I still very much believe in God- just not a god who condones human tithing. Lev begins to feel himself choking up with an unexpected flood of feeling, all the emotions that had been building up throughout their talk- throughout the weeks- arriving all at once like a sonic boom. I never knew there was a choice.

Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.

Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.

Heaven and hell - nirvana and Valhalla, reincarnation, hauntings, and so many underworlds, one would think the grave was a corridor with a million doors