Quotes About Spirituality

A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse

poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul...

Faith has answers that the ears can't always hear.

Poetry of the universe is written with flowers and the lights of love on a canvas we call earth.

But he who feels too much, He soars in angels' tears of joy...

O God bid my poor body to ariseOn that bright day triumphant through the skies!

Learn to use your third eye and you'll be able to see beyond the sky. There is no limit, except that which you impose upon yourself.

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.