Quotes About Spirituality

this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object, in other words by God himself. (Pensees, #148)

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind" (Matt. 22:37).4

while God does want to reach our hearts, He does not bypass our minds in the process.

regardless of what the real truth is concerning religion and morality, our lives are greatly affected by it today and perhaps even in eternity.

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

I am haunted by waters.

it is natural for man to try to attain power without recovering grace...(3)

Religion has no major relevance for the teachings of the Noble Eightfold Path. It might even act as a distraction. At its best, it reminds us of the deep things in life, but life ought to do that already. We

Anybody who changes their religion does so because they haven't understood their own", he responded to my surprise. He then took down a copy of the Bible and turned to the first pages of Genesis. He then read out a verse "Do not bite off the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Those born once will die twice and those born twice will die once

Most things that declare the glory of God can be perverted to worship.

The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.

Someone has said, "If you squeeze a lemon, you should get lemon juice. If you squeeze an orange, you should get orange juice. If you squeeze a Christian, you should get Christ.

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history. No purpose or place. We have no Great War, No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

You ever wonder when god's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

Sex reincarnated that good, pure girl, but as something else.

The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me.

All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering.

In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was a kind of tumbler. The same as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. All of us, we're meant to be worn smooth by conflict and pain of every kind. To be polished. There was nothing bad about this. This wasn't suffering, it was erosion.It was just another, a basic, an important step in the refining process.

We're the middle children of the history, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives