Quotes About Spirituality

Of all the acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults . . . is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle)

The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Having one's will on the Tao is finding joy in the Tao; when one delights in the Tao, then one can practice the Tao.

The gateway to the Tao is open - anyone can come in. If you know how to change directions, the goal is near at hand.

Not diminishing the Way by the mind, not trying to help the divine by means of the human.

?a?rat ("The Presence") 'Al?, who lived from 598 to 661 of the common era,

in everything we do in this life we are making ourselves the kind of persons we shall be for all eternity: loving or hateful, egocentric or outgoing, fulfilled or frustrated, beautiful or ugly, ecstatically delighted or utterly miserable.

The whole aim of any person who is beginning prayer—and don't forget this, because it is very important—should be that he work and prepare himself with determination and every effort to bring his will into conformity with God's will.

The worldling will not face his colossal inner blah.

Being in love with God is never boring.15

I say that had you asked about meditation I could have spoken about it and counseled all to practice it. . . . But contemplation is something else. . . . This King doesn't give Himself but to those who give themselves entirely to Him."4

People still complain, however, as did St. Teresa of Avila four centuries ago, of the lack of knowledgeable spiritual guides. What should one do if he cannot find a competent director? It is my opinion that in the area of advancing prayer, as also in this matter of alleged communications, no direction is preferable to probably incompetent direction

Down in the human spirit there is a center that opens on to infinity... Our deepest hungers are not for food and drink, not for amusements and recreations, not for property and wardrobes, not for notoriety and gossip. We hunger for truth, we thirst to drink beauty, we yearn to celebrate, we seek to delight, we stretch out to love and be loved. That is why anything less than everything is not enough.

63 St. John of the Cross, Counsels to a Religious on How to Reach Perfection, no. 2, p. 662.

I've been able to stay good because of my family and keeping God first. If you don't have God in your life, how are you going to navigate through this world?

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.

I have a Bible near my bed.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

For many years I had been aware that women were not only most important creations in the universe, but the nearest approach that man could reach to the divine.

I think I was about seven years old, and I remember I was at Moffat Road Baptist Church, where I grew up with all my friends and family and probably didn't understand nearly enough, but I knew enough to understand I wanted to be saved and wanted Jesus to be Lord of my life. What an awesome experience.

I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.