Quotes About Spirituality

There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own.

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.

Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

Transient emotions are lower emotions. Lasting emotions are higher emotions.

If you are meditating and a devil appears, make the devil meditate too

If we are not being moved in heart and moved to new places in life—new levels of obedience to God—we are not really reading the Bible the way God wants us to.

Those who neglect theology may live a shallow, insipid form of Christianity that, in the end, neither affects life nor endures the test of time.

I am That. Thou art That. All this is That. But that doesn't mean that that That is One Indivisible That.

God is not dead. He is just not God.

Life goes on within you and without you

A servant with this clauseMakes drudgery divine:Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,Makes that and th' action fine.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.

A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice...

Man is God's image; but a poor man isChrist's stamp to boot: both images regard.

Who goes to bed and does not pray,Maketh two nights to every day.

A verse may find him who a sermon flies.

He would adore my gifts instead of me,And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature:So both should losers be.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Kneeling ne'er spoil'd silk stocking: quit thy state. All equal are within the church's gate.

In the words of Chinese Zen master Layman P'ang (c. 740–808 A.D.): My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I'm in total harmony with them. I don't hold on to anything, don't reject anything; nowhere an obstacle or conflict. Who cares about wealth and honor? Even the poorest thing shines. My miraculous power and spiritual activity: drawing water and carrying wood.

May the Force be with you.

When I look into my heart, and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.

Regeneration, in other words, changed the whole person by changing the love at the heart of the person's being.