Quotes About Spirituality

When we live in anything less than righteousness, peace and joy, we are not experiencing everything that our Lord paid for.

It is only when we learn to live from the inside out, and not from the outside in, that we are truly free to experience these seasons. The Kingdom within us is more powerful than the kingdom around us.

Earthly seating creates reactionary prayers. If we sit there long enough, we will wind up with a big devil and a little God.

Since we were created in the image of God, we become like the God we imagine (image).

Testimonies not only remind us of the miracles of God, they are meant to open our eyes to another realm of Kingdom provision.

When we set our hearts on fire, demonic predators stay out of our camp,

WHILE THE WORLD IS not a vale of tears, there are times when it seems more so than others. As strong as we may be, these are the times we need a special power—the potent strength of the Divine Feminine.

I'm strangely comforted when I hear from scientists that human beings are the most complex creatures we know of in the universe, still, by far. Black holes are in their way explicable; the simplest living being is not. I lean a bit more confidently into the experience that life is so endlessly perplexing. I love that word. Spiritual life is a way of dwelling with perplexity—taking it seriously, searching for its purpose as well as its perils, its beauty as well as its ravages.

A mystic is anyone who has a gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradiction, and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family even though you've had a long day.

My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or idealism. It has nothing to do with wishing. It references reality at every turn and reveres truth. It lives open eyed and wholeheartedly with the darkness that is woven ineluctably into the light of life and sometimes seems to overcome it. Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory.

Beauty is that in the presence of which we feel more alive.

I've come to believe that our capacity to reach beyond ourselves—experiencing mystery or being present to others—is dependent on how fully we are planted in our bodies in all their flaws and their grace.

Maybe this is another way to think about original sin—the ingrained lure of the possibility of going numb, a habit of acquiescence to it.

We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. But the very fluidity of this—the possibility of choice that arises, the ability to craft and discern one's own spiritual bearings—is not leading to the decline of spiritual life but its revival.

Our spiritual lives are where we reckon head-on with the mystery of ourselves, and the mystery of each other.

An idea handed to me in the earliest years of my life of conversation comes back with new resonance—the idea of a kinship between the spirituality of the scientist and the spirituality of the mystic: a constant endeavor to discern truth while staying open to everything you do not yet, cannot yet, know.

Just as I felt the warmth of darkness, I could feel the cool breeze of divnity

Just as I'd felt the warmth of darkness, I could feel the cool breeze of divinity.

She tried to pray but her prayers felt far away, remnants of another woman's body.

no matter how glorious the perception, no matter how gratifying the event,nothing is ever truly fulfilling until you draw closer to God and enter the mystical temple God placed within you.

Once I see God, I'll never be hungry or thirsty or bored again, never wish or want again, never reach for something undefined again. I will have it all.

The reason or dog's evolution could be to guide humans to their higher purpose.