Quotes About Spirituality

I figure that if there's a heaven, then there's a room in heaven where you can look over all of history and be anyone you want to be, at a peak moment in their lives. For example, I always say I would choose to be one of Stevie Wonder's backup singers on the Innervisions album.

A life of usefulness, literature and religion, was not by any means a life of event.

I think you killed me," he announced. "Then I hope there's an afterlife," she teased back.

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed

Land meant something different in Hawai'i then it did in California. People here said the word with a kind of worship in their voices.

Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat

There was no harm done; and what would a Resurrection be without a few laughs?

Magic is the first and last religion of the world. It has the power to make us whole.

I have deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I have been elected by God to do.

Do demons have ghosts?' Norma asked him. 'Of course,' Knotchee replied. 'There will always be those who won't let go of who they were.

I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold...

As the track bends north-east, the ethereal sandstone disappears. The slopes turn black with granite, and the mountain's lower ridges break into unstable spikes and revetments. Their ribs are slashed in chiaroscuro, and their last outcrops pour towards the valley in the fluid, anthropomorphic shapes that pilgrims love. The spine and haunches of a massive stone beast, gazing at Kailas, are hailed as the Nandi bull, holy to Shiva; another rock has become the votive cake of Padmasambhava.

One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.

The evidence of paranormal research shows that there is a part of our being that knows far more than the conscious mind. And the evidence of mystics through the ages suggests that there is a part of our being that knows even greater secrets than this.

If there is no justice in this world, try the next.

She has always considered herself an atheist, not realizing she had a religion.

On nights when Tom Bird felt separate from his life's design, he shared stories of the Great Spirit. The Great Spirit lived in all things—the earth, the sky, the animals and forests—flowing through and connecting them in a divine thread.

Even angels are animals.

Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture.

You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven...

What he liked about his brother, he said, is that he made people become what they didn't think they could become. He twisted something in their hearts. Gave them new places to go. Even dead, he'd still do that. His brother believed that the space for God was one of the last great frontiers: men and women could do all sorts of things but the real mystery would always lie in a different beyond. He would just fling the ashes and let them settle where they wanted.

What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday.

I was a raw, quiet child, and God was already a bore to me.