Quotes About Spirituality

The life of Jesus is still being manifest among people, but now no longer through an individual physical body, limited to one place on earth, but through a complex, corporate body called the church.

By reading twenty-five to thirty chapters a week, an appetite for the Word of God is created.

If I were to choose one word to summarize the state of discipleship today, that word would be superficial.

Believe In The Knockout Power Of The Lord!

My child. My beloved. My pleasure. It seems as if it should be easy to hear these words and believe them, but it's not. An entire life of discipleship cannot fully mine these three simple expressions. It's the work of a lifetime just to begin to truly believe them.

And yet, it's still more important for people to know God than to know about God, to experience the friendship of Jesus than to know about the theoretical possibility of the friendship of Jesus.

What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer.1

In the words of E.M. Bounds in his book, Power Through Prayer: What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer.

Unlike the traditional prayers that we may have used in the past, however, this technique of prayer has no words. It is based in the silent language of human emotion. It invites us to feel gratitude and appreciation, as if our prayers have already been answered. Through this quality of feeling, the ancients believed that we're given direct access to the power of creation: the Spirit of God.

great Sufi poet Rumi. With words that are simple and powerful, he states, "Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

The act of focusing our consciousness is an act of creation. Consciousness creates!

if the past and the future are present in this moment, can we communicate with them?

It's all about our power to focus consciousness, which is the great secret of some of our most ancient and cherished traditions.

the power of imagination as the essence of our existence

We're creators—and even more than that, we're connected creators.

I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean. — Rumi

To be wounded by the suffering of others is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

Religions do not teach doubt.

Scripture scholars contend that the original language of the Beatitudes should not be rendered as "Blessed are the single-hearted" or "Blessed are the peacemakers" or "Blessed are those who struggle for justice." Greater precision in translation would say, "You're in the right place if...you are single-hearted or work for peace." The Beatitudes is not a spirituality, after all. It's a geography. It tells us where to stand.

The principle suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace. It is a toxic shame -- a global sense of failure of the whole self. This shame can seep so deep down... To this end, one hopes (against all human inclination) to model not the "one false move" God but the "no matter whatness" of God. You seek to imitate the kind of God you believe in, where disappointment is, well, Greek to Him. You strive to live the black spiritual that says, "God looks beyond our fault and sees our need.

How much greater is the God we have than the one we think we have.

The poet Kabir asks, "What is God?" Then he answers his own question: "God is the breath inside the breath.

Not only does God think we're firme, it is God's joy to have us marinate in that.

The soul of alpinism is to travel light and fast through a dangerous landscape in pursuit of a personal star. That is ascent.