Quotes About Spirituality

He urged his audience to get religion not simply for their own salvation but for the salvation of their city and country. Without "an old-fashioned revival," he warned, "we cannot last!" A

Taking time for a self-inventory is a necessary first step toward making the transition from a religion focused on belief to a spirituality based on behavior.

In an effort to reclaim our humanity, let us find new motivation for living by opening our minds to broader concepts of spirituality.

When we don't forgive, we trap ourselves in spiritual prisons.

The loss of psalmody in the church is one of the early indicators of the loss of faith.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

There was no limit to the outpouring as I came to the rapturous awareness of the infinite nature of God's love. There was no place that God did not exist and I was within God. I am an inseparable part of the light. The truth, of who I am, indeed, who we all are, is perfect love as a creation of God.

It's getting harder to live without faith, or you, or whatever we choose to call what calls to us in the quiet. — Kevin Young, from "Book Rate," Dear Darkness: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009)

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.

Nine months spent in the womb of your mother have transformed a drop of water into 'you' – hearing, seeing and thinking. Can you imagine what a lifetime spent with the Qur'?n – seeking, hearing, seeing, thinking, striving – can do for you?

Of all the intimate blessings and favours He has bestowed upon you nothing can match the Qur'?n. If every hair on your body becomes a tongue praising and thanking Him, if every drop of blood in your body turns into a joyful tear, even then your praise and thanks will not match His enormous generosity that is the Qur'?n.

To read the Qur'?n is nothing less than to live the Qur'?n willingly, sincerely, devotedly, and totally. The outcome of your entire life depends on how you heed the call given by God.

?if? is an essential way of making the Qur'?n penetrate you. It is not a mechanical, ritual act; it is an act of high spiritual and devotional importance. Only through ?if? can you read the Qur'?n in Prayers and ponder over its meaning while you stand in the presence of the Speaker. But apart from that, it makes the Qur'?n flow on your tongue, reside in your mind, dwell in your heart: it becomes your constant companion.

The Qur'?n is not a parcel to be intellectually unwrapped, nor merely a beatitude to be ecstatically experienced. Do not approach the Qur'?n as a split person; leave neither intellect nor feeling behind you when you study it; let both come together.

There is no book like the Qur'an. It quickens hearts and transforms lives, it leads whole people from glory to glory. It is the final answer to man's eternal, existential quest. For Muslims, it is the ultimate arbiter of their destiny: be it their rise to the heights of glory and civilization or their fall into the bottomless pits of decay and ignominy, it all happens because of how they live with respect to the Qur'an.

Whoever allows the world to become his biggest concern has nothing to do with Allah, and Allah will instil four qualities into his heart: anxiety which will never leave him, business which he will never be free from; poverty which he will never rid himself of, and hope which he will never fulfil. (Tabarani.) Additionally,

If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God, he has only to look at what place he gives to God [in his heart and life]. (Hakim.)

A generous person is close to Allah, close to Paradise, close to people, and far from Hell. However, a miserly person is far from Allah, far from Paradise, far from people, but close to Hell. Allah loves more an ignorant man who is generous than a worshipper who is miserly. (Tirmidhi.) We

The Prophet said that when a person performs Salat, he actually comes nearer to Allah and talks to Him. If you look at how you pray five times a day, you will have a barometer in your hand to find out how much you love Allah. Once