Quotes About Spirituality

M? zb?team împotriva ispitelor unei mediocrit??i necesare, încercam s? creez în jurul meu o singur?tate nemiloas? a spiritului, dac? nu a trupului; luptam cu mine însumi, m? pedepseam, m? obiÈ™nuiam cu suferinÈ›ele, în vederea unor încerc?ri apropiate È™i cumplite.

El pan que es ya santo sobre la mesa de casa, conviértese sobre la mesa de la Iglesia en el cuerpo inmortal de Cristo. También la moneda es el signo visible de una transustanciación; es la hostia infame del demonio. El dinero amonedado es el excremento corrompido del demonio

Para mí, Dios no ha muerto, porque nunca había estado vivo en mi ánima.

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. If sensitive, he will become brutish. If rational, he will grow into a heavenly being. If intellectual, he will be an angel and the son of God. And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.

even if we returned to the dirt and the wind and the rain like the plants and the animals, we had a bigness in us. Something beyond algorithms and beyond Upgrades-- something we were proud to call human. Or so it seemed to me.

Willingness to forgive frees the soul to laugh and cry and be The Beloved.

As I free myself through Forgiveness, Myself dances around Myself. I stand in the Light.

I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it.

In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.

Find a quiet place to sit alone and in silence; bow your head and shut your eyes. Breathe softly, look with your mind into your heart; recollect your mind—that is, all its thoughts—and bring them down from your mind into your heart. As you breathe, repeat: "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me," either quietly with your lips, or only in your mind. Make an effort to banish all thoughts; be calm and patient, and repeat this exercise frequently

O Lord and Master of my life, Take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk, But grant rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to your servant. Yes, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own faults, and not to judge my brother and my sister, For You are blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.

With the name of Jesus, or with sincere thought on Jesus, a great power is united: it drives away passions, forbids demons, and fills the heart with heavenly stillness and joy.

This, of course, is the crux. It doesn't really matter what the language is, only whether there's a transcendent moral grammar underpinning it. No one really cares what hell's called or who runs it. They just don't want to go there.

Every time I saw Muslim masses bowed in prayer or the Catholic faithful gathered all I saw was fear. Moronically nodding Hasidim, paint-throwing Hindus, shimmying and jabbering Evangelicals, they were all scared shitless this was all there was. Even the Buddhists (whose crinkled tee-heeing lamas always made me want to slap them) were terrified of their own flesh and blood, needed some disembodied desire-free fairyland to shoot for.

eyes: so transparently enslaved by the soul

Human love didn't eradicate God, but it put Him into His proper distant second place.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

It's why people in sexual extremis say Oh, God . It's not a cry to the Divine, it's a recognition of their own divinity.

The absense of a soul, by the way, makes it easy to inhabit a body. (Therefore, why is Elton John still pudging around unpossessed? I hear you ask?)

What would it be like without Him?

Hell [...] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.

Formation for life is also at the heart of other religious traditions. But for followers of Jesus the reality of the resurrection challenges the sense of how one lives in the coordinates of space and time. From the earliest days of the church, gathering together on the Lord's Day, Sunday, became

I don't know if there's an illustration more clear as to what can really take place in a person's life spiritually than this animated character transforming from an animal to a prince

And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.