Quotes About Spirituality

Lord, perhaps you don't hear my prayers. But I've never prayed with the expectation that it would affect your actions; I prayed with the expectation that it would affect mine.

their love for God was based in their satisfaction with the status quo.

Accept the mystery, said the minister of the local church. If you can love God even though your questions go unanswered, you'll be the better for it. Admit

Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has." ~Blink

Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean

God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.

taught that God speaks the same today as God always did, but that humans both hear and interpret what they hear differently. They imagine

clear that the people have responsibility for following divinely inspired paths and living in accord with principles of justice and compassion, in service to the One God. When they fail in this responsibility,

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

We can be trapped by our past and be unable to see what God has ahead for us when we don't understand how to deal with trauma. We need to understand very clearly that God's purposes for us are always greater than our problems. If we let Him, the Holy Spirit will come alongside and carry the problems that would bury us. But it all takes place through the bitter waters of healing.

The central focus of childrearing is to bring children to a sober assessment of themselves as sinners.

If you want your children to have a reason to sing on Sunday, give them a glorious God. If you want your children to have a reason not to sin on Monday, give them a glorious God.

Since there is no such thing as a place of childhood neutrality, your children either worship God or idols.

Our kids are always serving something, either God or a substitute for God—an idol of the heart. 

Teach your children that ungodly behavior begins with ungodly attitudes of heart, but godly behavior begins with godly attitudes of heart. Below

The self-love and self-trust our culture proffers always turns the heart away from God.

We give them material things and take delight in their delight in possessions. Then we hope that somewhere down the line they will see that a life worth living is found only in knowing and serving God.

The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.

By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers

If I'm going to meditate, there is a little church up in Montecito, California. It's an old Spanish mission, actually. I find it comforting in there.

I didn't grow up listening to musicals. I sang coritos or Spanish spiritual songs and was raised on gospel singer Kirk Franklin.

In this world of ours, every believer must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying ferment for the mass; and it will be that all the more as, in the depths of his being, he lives in communion with God.

Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.

I speak to God every day.