Quotes About Spirituality

O riso e o amor vêm do mesmo lugar: mas pouca gente vai lá.

Souvenez vous, she tells me. One must make a little prayer from time to time.

Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going to rest till he's in the room. You is in the Word or you ain't--ain't no halfway with God.

I am proud of these people not because of their color but because of their intelligence and their spiritual force and their beauty.

I did not understand the dreams I had at night, but I knew that they were not holy. For that matter, I knew that my waking hours were far from holy. I spent most of my time in a state of repentance for things I had vividly desired to do but had not done.

The journey to the grave is already begun, the journey to corruption is, always, already, half over. Yet, the key to my salvation, which cannot save my body, is hidden in my flesh.

a forehead so high that it can make you think of cathedrals.

I'm going to pray God," said John—and his voice shook, whether with joy or grief he could not say—"to keep me, and make me strong ... to stand ... to stand against the enemy ... and against everything and everybody ... that wants to cut down my soul.

To be androgynous, Webster's informs us, is to have both male and female characteristics. This means that there is a man in every woman, and a woman in every man. Sometimes this is recognised only when the chips are, brutally, down - when there is no longer any way to avoid this recognition. But love between a man and a woman, or love between any two human beings, would not be possible did we not have available to us the spiritual resources of both sexes.

You must pray,' she says, very soberly. I assure you. Even just a little prayer, from time to time. Light a little candle. If it were not for the prayers of the blessed saints, one could not live in this world at all.

I am proud of these people not because of their colour but because of their intelligence and their spiritual force and their beauty.

The absence of Jesus is the mode of his presence.

The I AM of God, of Jesus, is the "I am" of every person, and it consists in every person being aware of herself or himself.

Mindful imitation makes Christ actual.

To each one, the encounter with Jesus is unique, however it occurs. That no one possesses Jesus, or fully understands him, is why the movement toward Jesus can never be made alone.

Then, alone once more, he split himself into the three persons that all generals of the Church must simultaneously be. First, the anointed Peter, first Bishop of Christ, with all that that spiritually implied. Second, the militant guardian of the Church temporal with all that that implied. And last, just a simple man who believed the teachings of a simple man who was the Son of God.

Their souls touch and I seem to be more aware of God because of it.

You don't know for certain about God until you're dead.

I send you my laughter. May Buddha bless thee and thine.

Christianity is a religion. Not a political ideology.

Where do the interests of the Christians lie?" "On the side of peace. Christianity is a religion, Sire, not a political ideology.

The word of God surpasses earthly orders.

Ce minunat, ce minunat de simplu e s? po?i spune c? dragostea te aduce aproape de Dumnezeu.

It's the brandy, Pilot, that an' fornication an' the saintly life I've led.