Quotes About Spirituality

these ascetic practices were not undertaken in order to cow the spirit is exemplified by the story of Pur?? Puri himself. He chose the ?rdhvab?hu austerity and held both his arms in the air for the remaining forty-five years of his life, during which he travelled continuously, reaching as far as Malaysia in the east and Moscow in the west.

2.49) O Arjuna, action is very much inferior to the yoga of the intellect (buddhiyoga). Seek refuge in the intellect! Wretched are they who are motivated by results.

Some see the self in the self by means of the self through meditation; others through S??khya yoga; and others through the yoga of action.

A man ain't got to stand in church every Sunday to do God's work.

We all got to die, she said. But dying as your true self is always better. God'll take you however you come to Him. But it's easier on a soul to come to Him clean. You're forever free that way. From top to bottom.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

He said he loved Blue. He said he loved the evil in Blue. He loves the evil in all people. Because in loving their evil, he loves the evil in himself enough to surrender it to God, who washes it clean. He's loving what God made, is what he said.

It's God's world. He washes you clean. He makes you whole. He puts rain in your garden and sunshine in your heart. Clarence

The Old Man's prayers was more sight than sound, really, more sense than sensibility. You had to be there: the aroma of burnt pheasant rolling through the air, the wide, Kansas prairie about, the smell of buffalo dung, the mosquitoes and wind eating at you one way, and him chawing at the wind the other. He was a plain terror in the praying department

I didn't make head nor tails of what he was saying, for I was to learn that Old John Brown could work the Lord into just about any aspect of his comings and goings in life, including using the privy. That's one reason I weren't a believer, having been raised by my Pa, who was a believer and a lunatic, and them things seemed to run together.

I played it for myself many times, thinking, wishing, hoping that the world would be this open-minded, knowing that God

He leaned on the church wall and gave his heart a moment to catch itself.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. ROMANS 3:10–12

ICH BENDÜRFNES JESUS CHRISTUS HANGELENK MEIN GEBEIN WEINEN ODLAND, KRIEGSBIET, LEBENWEISE GESCHWINDIGKEIT, HALBMESSER, ABSTEIG GNAPENSTOB

I looked into her eyes. Mom, who do you pray to? I just pray, Daniel. That's all.

THE RIVER OF FOREVER is not the serene, clear-blue comfort that you'd hope to greet your soul after you've exhaled your last breath in the Overworld.

Thomas Merton stayed at the abbey for twenty-seven years. His autobiography

You know. "I only know that I've lost my faith in You." The "voice" resonated in my mind. I haven't lost mine in you.

The most striking thing about beautiful churches, to me, is that they were mostly designed by people who were inspired by a belief in something larger and more important than themselves, and this is how I try to lead my own life.

For the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

But when the swell of voices lifted up the church, it didn't seem wrong to privately ask for mercy to shine down on this innocent soul.

is doing, so that your alms may be in secret, and your Father who sees what is in secret will reward you.

Nuestra Señora del Mar de Oro