Quotes About Spirituality

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

We should take care not to make intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Life is a school where you learn how to remember what your soul already knows.

Love is my religion — I could die for that.

There is no prophet that preaches the superpersonal God more plainly than mathematics...

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs, rather, are reinvigorated each day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make.

F.B., "Notes of Music," 1848

[M]ore than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way into the secret places of the soul.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons, It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

In your patience possess ye your souls.

Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn't know you needed transforming.

I sew my life together with the glittering threads of poetry.

If you ask, "What is the use of praying?" I answer, "Woe is me if I do not pray!" I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent somewhere. I pray because it is easier to pray than not to pray. It is the soul that prays first: the tongue wags afterwards. It is no small privilege that we have of talking with God, and of laying our troubles upon him so as to feel relieved of them.

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.

Prayer is communication with the Divine. It can be whispered or chanted or written or expressed in the work you do. However it is expressed, it is never in vain.

You don't always have to pray for something, or to someone — you can just, simply, pray.

Prayer is for the grateful and for the grateful-to-be.

When we pray, our hearts glow a glorious joy that lights our souls and all the world around us.

When prayers go up, blessings come down.

Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer.

It is of course possible to dance a prayer.

Pray so hard that your words glow in the dark.

...prayer draws us near to our own souls, and purifies our thoughts.