Quotes About Spirituality

The cost in time, dollars, friendships, reputation, family, and other areas was great if you measure in the natural realm. But measuring in spiritual and Kingdom terms, the cost was nothing. Only in God's economy can something cost you everything, yet cost you nothing.

And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own.

To love one another is to come as close as we ever can to being angels ourselves.

I am Cortana, of the same steel and temper as Joyeuse and Durendal. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own.

Where is your angel now?

Music is part of God's universe.

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

They have hijacked my religion.

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.

I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows

Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick...

But that's how Wicca was: ancient and gently permeating many facets of people's lives without their being aware of it.

By the mid-eighteenth century, another new attitude was emerging, one which encouraged reflection on death as a spiritual exercise and a valid form of artistic expression. The experts on Victorian death, James Stevens Curl and Chris Brooks, have described this tendency as, respectively, 'the cult of sepulchral melancholy' and 'graveyard gothic'.

I went down and down,' he remembered, 'until the wingtips of angels brushed my eyes.

Was her God up there in the sky as she believed? Did he truly hear man's whispers,his thoughts? Hunter could see his own Gods,Mother Earth,Mother Moon, Father Sun, the wind coming from four directions. It was easy to believe in what he could see. Why did Loretta's God hide himself?

There is no boundary between the living and the dead

Buddhists make it very simple for you to reach your heavenly reward. To reach Nirvana, all you have to do is live right, think right, and deny yourself just about everything.

The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for external sounds to penetrate the thick walls, whilst within no slamming door, nor wandering foot, nor sacrilegious voice breaks in upon the stillness, the slightest noise strikes upon the ear with a fearful distinctness. ("The Monk's Story")

Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.

On side of the cross is empty. That is where we belong.