Quotes About Spirituality

Sacro egoismo was the phrase; you made yourself holy by the force with which you asserted your own Godhead.

Never by chance will you say anything about there being starvation outside the gates; and if the owner takes you to the Episcopal Church or the Catholic, you will not quote what you hear about laying up for yourselves treasures on earth, or about how "the Lord hath put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.

You would say that he felt that money had made him holy.

My body's a temple to a different god from hers.

all that New Age stuff reckons a shower cleanses your aura.

We must intentionally help our children process the world through God's eyes.

When we practice a rule of prayer, prayer gradually becomes a holy habit, something we do that is not dependent on feelings or moods or our ability to articulate well. It becomes central to our lives and strengthens our connections to God.

Just as we help our children expand their vocabularies by reading to them and engaging them in conversations, we expand our vocabularies of prayer by making other people's prayers our own. Hymnals, denominational prayer books, and books of prayers from Christian people in all cultures and time periods can enrich our own prayer lives as we hear new ways of expressing old needs or experience a fresh perspective of how to pray for a situation.

The Discipline of Solitude invites us to empty our lives and minds of constant noise and clutter so that we may be filled with the still small voice of God and that from hearing God's voice we can speak to a hurting world.

When we train ourselves, in the midst of unpleasant or difficult circumstances, to focus intentionally on the gifts God gives us, it helps us put our own lives into proper perspective.

A great book that I recommend is called The Marriage of Spirit.14

Everybody keeps saying be satisfied with Jesus's love, and he will give us our daily bread. I keep waiting, but we never get any bread, so I have to go out and do things for myself.

I believe in God, and I love my brother. But I don't want any religion that will demand I lose my individuality.

the only real escape from the demands of the flesh is to find something more than the flesh to love; and that Mary is the refuge of sinners.

From each god his own way of revelation. And for each man his own way of marking the shadow which his god casts.

My mind still clung to the image of my wife. A thought crossed my mind: I didn't even know if she were still alive. I knew only one thing-which I have learned well by now: Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.

And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its details, whatever the omissions, the exceptions, or the faults - is the march from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from the false to the true, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from brutality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from nothingness to God. Starting point: matter; goal: the soul. Hydra at the beginning, angel at the end.

As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.