Quotes About Spirituality

It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.

Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul

The world is not dead. The world is alive and breathes. The world is the whim of God, and her journey is forever.

I now like who I am, and I think all I went through was for a purpose. I think it was God's plan to make me the person I've become.

Most white people enter therapy in order to gain better control of their lives, or as one healer put it, "to stickhandle through life." Indigenous healing is instead about connecting with the spirit world in a meaningful way and achieving harmony. Whereas

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

There must be a God because you are the Devil.

The search for God begins at the point of need.

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.

We don't have to accept blandness in life. God, who is the author of creativity, is ready to make a dull life adventuresome the moment we allow his Holy Spirit to go to work inside us.

To know God as He really is-in His essential nature and character-is to arrive at a citadel of peace that circumstances may storm, but can never capture.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

At Christmas, we remember God's gift to us by giving gifts to each other.

I, too, am in contact with the source of that good. The divine equivalent of that good is now on its way to me, and I gratefully accept it. My own similar, God-appointed blessings now appear. They are satisfying and appropriate and for this I give thanks.

The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.

Here's what I think about dying: I think it's not so much about being and then not being. I think it's more about where you are. Not whether you are.

I think god made a mistake with me. I think I should have been a horse. He probably has a lot on his mind, you know. I don't just mean I want to be a horse, or I wish I was. I mean I think I am, only stuck in the wrong shell.

what, or to whom? She'd long ago given up on any sort of God—probably while she was still a child—particularly the one forced on her by her parents. It seemed wrong to drag that relationship back into play now simply because she was afraid. It felt two-faced and selfish. She

the soul of the animal, as I've read that Native Americans do. It strikes me as a form of grace. Saying grace. Or just being grace. I am still on the Navajo Nation, wishing Navajo grace traveled with me on this land, or that Everett had packed some with my dried beef. But I don't go so far as to complete the ritual. I say a word or two of apology out loud,

More things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophies.

In formal education, children are introduced to new ideas about God and must reconcile their image of God with what the teacher tells them about God. As we teach children, at home and in the church, we do not give them our understanding of God; rather, we guide them as they reshape their God in the light of what they learn from us and in their ever expanding life experiences.[19]

Adults must never discourage a child who desires to respond to God. When children know that God invites them to come and they are ready for a response, they do not need severe external pressure. They simply need a setting for response and possibly an adult to guide them, pray with them, and affirm their encounter with God.

At various ages children become aware of different realities of the gospel.

The incarnation affirms the importance of childhood.