Quotes About Spirituality

Enfin, il y a un livre, un livre qui semble d'un bout à l'autre une émanation supérieure, un livre qui est pour l'univers ce que le Koran est pour l'islamisme, ce que les Védas sont pour l'Inde, un livre qui contient toute la sagesse humaine éclairée par toute la sagesse divine, un livre que la vénération des peuples appelle le livre, la Bible !

Let us live, by all means. But let us try to ensure that death is a progress. Let us aspire to worlds that are less dark. Let us follow the conscience that leads us there.

We shall be grasshoppers among the stars. And then we shall see God.

Qué pasa con las almas de esos seres que acaban de dejar el seno de Dios cuando se encuentran así desde que nacen pequeñas y desnudas entre los hombres?

Saint Augustine: 'Place your expectations in Him to whom there is no succession!

Cometer la menor cantidad de pecados posibles es la ley del hombre. No cometer ninguno es el sueño del ángel.

Há um espetáculo mais grandioso que o mar, é o céu; e há outro mais grandioso que o céu, é o interior da alma.

Pecar o menos possível é a lei dos homens. Não pecar nunca é sonho de anjos. Tudo o que é da terra está sujeito ao pecado. O pecado é uma gravitação.

The stem, when the hand is stretched out to pluck the flower, quivers, and seems at once to shrink back, and present itself. The human body has something of this trepidation at the moment when the mysterious fingers of death are about to gather the soul.

This book is a drama whose first character is the Infinite. Man is the second.

To speak out aloud when alone is as it were to have a dialogue with the divinity which is within. It was, as is well known, a custom of Socrates; he declaimed to himself. Luther did the same.

Il n'y a dans les religions que cela d'irreductible. Mais cet irreductible suffit. On ne voit pas l'immense être nécessaire; on le sent.

They convert a poor camel-driver into a Mahomet; a peasant girl tending her goats into a Joan of Arc. Solitude generates a certain amount of sublime exaltation.

To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

Nothing like a soulful glance under the noses of the saints!

The devil may visit us, but God lives here.

Up here, in the vastness of Alaska, the words sounded infinitesimal and small. A fist shaken at the gods.

but not only by believing in God. Prayers and faith will not be enough, I'm afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous. Get

She wanted to pray, but her faith felt far away, the remnant of another woman's life.

Mama was engaged in a continual quest to "find" herself. In the past few years, she'd tried EST and the human potential movement, spiritual training, Unitarianism. Even Buddhism. She'd cycled through them all, cherry-picked pieces and bits. Mostly, Leni thought, Mama had come away with T-shirts and sayings. Things like, What is, is, and what isn't, isn't. None of it seemed to amount to much.

theology was never my strong suit. Pretty much everything I know about religion comes from Jesus Christ Superstar.

She thought: It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul. It had become her mantra.

WELCOME TO ECHO BEACH, WHERE GOD ANSWERS BACK, read the sign on her left.

Así que ahora elegimos ver milagros.