Quotes About Spirituality

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer." She reread the passage three times, then closed her Bible and her eyes. "Oh,

What we leave behind, Lord, surely needs to be of spiritual value, for my oh my, how quickly the rest of it can vanish." Katie

The ninth gift is Reverence. May you appreciate the wonder that you are and the miracle of all creation.

The twelfth gift is Faith. May you believe

It is important to note that we did not emerge into patriarchal religion from a dark, chaotic, immature period of primitivism; Goddess-centered cultures, including Minoan Crete, were highly evolved.

A third aspect of Goddess spirituality is the perceptual shift from the death-based sense of existence that underlies patriarchal culture to a regeneration-based awareness, an embrace of life as a cycle of creative rebirths, a dynamic participation in the processes of infinity.

Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand. First, the Indian does not speak of these deep matters so long as he believes in them, and when he has ceased to believe he speaks inaccurately and slightingly. Second,

Either God is in the whole of Nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.

It is the design of Scripture that God should be at the center of our thoughts and dreams.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days — but not without poetry.

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

I know that ghosts and demons did exist, they did, if only you thought about them long enough and hard enough.

Repeat after me…Our Father, who art in heaven…" "Barukh atah adonai, eloheinu…" "Stop.

On December 11,1934, Wilson's drinking came to a screeching halt. On that day he was readmitted to Towns Hospital, sedated, and subjected to Dr. Silkworth's "belladonna cure," a treatment regimen which included morphine and other psychoactive drugs in addition to belladonna (which in large doses is a powerful hallucinogen).5 While under the influence of the "cure," Bill Wilson experienced his "spiritual awakening.

As well, the very religiosity of step 2 is a major problem for many persons. Like steps 3, 5, 6, 7 and 11, step 2 refers to "God," "Him," or "a Power greater than ourselves." (Note the capitalization.) This poses obvious problems for those who believe that the existence of God is no more likely than the existence of Mother Goose.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.