Quotes About Spirituality

God is infinitely beautiful in himself, and his beauty ought to attract you like a magnet to him.

Ask God to make you like David: an intercessor, even in the midst of your own great sins and great needs.

Algunos suspiran durante toda la semana hasta que suceden cosas nuevas, convierten en parte de la felicidad de sus vidas el estudiar cómo va el estado, más que el estudiar cómo marchan sus propios corazones, o incluso sus propios negocios. Sin embargo, no piensan en las miserias de la iglesia de Cristo, ni ayudan con sus oraciones.

Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vaultThe pealing anthem swells the note of praise.

We have felt that we came to know God by means of these thoughts and images, but in reality it is impossible for the infinite God to be captured by our finite thoughts, images, and feelings. Now, when everything suddenly becomes dark, when our ordinary ways of knowing are blinded, it is because the light of God has suddenly been turned on

their work was a way to understand the workings of the divine.

Good, but not religious-good.

A local cult called Christianity.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

I was at the famous Shiva temple of Brihadishwari in Tanjore,

Quietistic meditation is easier, naturally, but a person who practices it will turn out to be just as insecure and petty as someone not enlightened at all. What is equally important, "leisure-time" meditation that separates our spiritual life from our activities is merely hiding from reality. You cannot come home from the job and suddenly turn on a meditation experience.

Whereas Buddhism believes it would be best if we could simply ignore the world, the source of our psychic pain, the Taoists wanted nothing so much as to have complete union with this same world.

We do not worship, we do not adore [saints], for fear that we should bow down to the creature rather than to the Creator, but we venerate the relics of the martyrs in order the better to adore Him whose martyrs they are

Health is the requisite after morality

Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.

God is available through many sources besides the religious quest. I don't mean to imply that psychology replaces the work of religion, but it seems to me that it greatly supports religion and brings a certain clarity to areas of the human condition, especially the discovery of the unconscious.

The spiritual journey can be a lonely road in the beginning. Later God will give us new friends. God does not take anything away except to give us something better.

If you want to be free, he suggests, if you want to heal your relationship with God, with others and yourself, enter your inner room—the office, where the Divine Therapy takes place. Close the door so you don't run away. Quiet your interior dialogue so that you can listen to what the Spirit is saying to you.

Gifts of the Holy Spirit grow in direct proportion to the depth and sincerity of our love.

Let Love Alone speak

Divine love is infused in the seedbed of total submission and self-surrender and brings us through the night of spirit into the transforming union.

All human history is under the influence of the false-self system that easily moves from our hearts into our families, communities, and nations and then afflicts the whole human race. God invites us to take responsibility for being human and to open ourselves to the unconscious damage that is influencing our decisions and relationships.

We share in centering prayer when done in common a reservoir of silence that is enhanced by each one's contribution.