Quotes About Spirituality

When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.

You haven't prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.

On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.

You know, we're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God -- and I believe there is -- that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.

We'll have the Jesusiest time ever!

Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.

It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

The usual things helped: some distance, prayer, chocolate.

I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.

For it is through humility, he knew, that holiness--and poetry--find entrance to the human soul.

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.

The nearer the Church the further from God.

Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.

It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest; I should for ever dream of you.

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.

Gadzooks! What a big chunk of God is to be found by looking into the face of someone you love!