Quotes About Spirituality

In paradisum. Said he was going to paradise or is in paradise. Says that over everybody. Tiresome kind of a job. But he has to say something.

May Allah, the Excellent One, your soul this night ever tremendously conserve.

preacher's tone:

Introibo ad altare Dei.

Wery weeny wight, plead for Morandmor! Notre Dame de la Ville, mercy of thy balmheartzyheat!

Death is not an end but a doorway we walk through as automatically as we take our next breath.

death is not the nightmare we've been led to fear. Maybe it's no more than an effortless step out of this world into the next—nearer to God's heavenly kingdom.

Those who have "died" and returned usually report being met and guided by people they know very well—even those already dead many years.

Love and light are the essential fruits of a Christlike life.

The more you immerse yourself in the story of God's light in this life, the more likely you are to see it again on the other side.

God—the all-knowing, all-powerful, everywhere-present One—wants closeness with you and me!

Coincidence is your Higher Power acting with anonymity.

My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.

I guess that seems like an absurd premise until we consider the possibility that the dead are always with us, beckoning from the shade, reminding us that we're actors in the same drama they have already lived and that they can help us with our lives if we will only let them.

each morning is a blessing, as votive in nature as a communion wafer raised to the sky.

It's funny what can happen when you lay bare the heart and join the Earth's old dance through the heavens.

Chief Joseph already said it. "The place where I go is the place where I will be.

He was riding back through a doorway in time to a place that had nothing to do with the airplanes, and motorized vehicle and telephones wires, and radios that surrounded him now....... The woods in late autumn had become his private sun dappled cathedral, one that contained presences antithetical to the conventional notion of a church.

there are moments when we understand that the earth and the sky and the presences that may lie behind them are always with us.

go with the wind, all of us twirling among young people who wore flowers in their hair, a church bell clanging without stop in a Spanish mission. Roll on forever, Woody.

he saw no fence between this world and the one that lay behind it.

I will not accept my daughter's death. I will find a way to pull her back through the veil or untether myself and lie down in the bottom of a boat that has no oars and float down the Columbia and into the Pacific, where she will be waiting for me somewhere beyond the sun.

If we haven't got time to pray to The Lord for help then we haven't got much time at all do we?

What the ancients called Bogan, as separate from Ashla.