Quotes About Spirituality

The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for personal space. But God seemed to whisper that the alternative existed: to let Him grow humility and concern for others in a way I had never experienced, to live out His peace amid whirling chaos. (p.67)

The Prophet's life is an invitation to a spirituality that avoids no question and teaches us—in the course of events, trials, hardships, and our quest—that the true answers to existential questions are more often those given by the heart than by the intelligence. Deeply, simply: he who cannot love cannot understand.

Human] wisdom is the believer's lost belonging; he is the most worthy of it wherever he finds it.

Spirituality means both accepting and mastering one's instincts: living one's natural desires in the light of one's principles is a prayer. It is never a misdeed, nor is it hypocrisy.

the desert, more than anything else, opens the human mind to observation, meditation, and initiation into meaning.

That gentleness and kindness were the very essence of his teaching. He kept saying: "God is gentle [rafiq] and he loves gentleness [ar-rifq] in everything.

In Islam, every action, when undertaken in the remembrance of God, is considered sacred.

The 13th century author and scholar, Imam An-Nawawi (1233–1277) asserts that there are two stages to faith: "the faith of the trader" who gives himself to God in exchange for Paradise and, beyond this, "the faith of the one who draws close" – who dedicates himself to God in an act of pure love. The notion of exchange disappears to make room for total, complete and free love.

The notion of love and obedience in love is therefore fundamental in Muslim spirituality, as it is for all spiritualities which affirm that one must learn to love in order to serve and enter into the peace of Islam.

J'ai appris qu'il fallait dire "Paix!" à ceux qui lancent des cris de haine contre votre être, votre présence ou sur votre passage. Pas toujours facile. C'est le sens de toutes les spiritualités, le profond jihâd du cÅ"ur et de l'intelligence... Paix, oui, avec force, tranquilité et dignité, à tous les instigateurs de mensonges, d'hypocrisies et de guerres.

As long as there is consciousness, these two potentials exist—the potential to become enlightened and the potential to suffer.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama says that if we can maintain a calm and peaceful mind, our external surroundings can only cause us limited disturbance.

It is, in effect, as though we forget who and what we most truly are, and thus must labor to remember ourselves and reintegrate ourselves to the state of the person of light who is united with divine being in the light-continuum.

The nature of one's own consciousness is the same as the nature of God and Godhead and, therefore, to know God, one must seek to know oneself.

I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set up shop there if you want to swap your soul for something more useful. If you believe that God can be bribed, it's also the hallowed ground to make sacrifices. In the literal sense, it's also a place to change direction, but once you've changed it, you're stuck until you come to another crossroads, and who knows how long that will be.

Get on your knees when you talk to the Lord. Do not call yourself praying by lying in the bed thinking. Thinking and praying are two different things, and for something this important, you need prayer.

Read this letter three times before you tell me what you think. I am also including a prayer card, and it would do you some good to pray on this every night. Get on your knees when you talk to the Lord. Do not call yourself praying by lying in the bed thinking. Thinking and praying are two different things, and for something this important, you need prayer.

If you can't count it, measure it, or gauge it with science, it didn't happen.

But in truth, I was different now, burning and anointed.

I am not about to judge you. That's between you and Jesus.

There is no room for me here. Why don't I pack up and go? Nothing astonishes these people. They take everything in their stride. They neither rejoice at a birth nor are saddened at a death. When they laugh they say "I ask forgiveness of God" and when they weep they say "I ask forgiveness of God". Just that. And I, what have I learnt?

Rauschenbusch rejected the usual religious emphasis on matters of piety, metaphysics, and the supernatural, interpreting Christianity instead as a spirit of brotherhood made manifest in social ethics.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

La búsqueda de D•os y la revelación final son las únicas cosas que dan sentido a la vida del hombre.