Quotes About Spirituality

However, six times throughout day and night I contemplate samsara's defects and feel disenchanted by it.

Bless me so that I may have nothing to do but practice Dharma.

Such veneration, however, is not accorded to the person himself because of his own greatness, but rather is accorded to the teaching that the teacher embodies and exemplifies.

With whom you've had close connections since beginningless time;

Have you ever been in a Walmart?" asked Eva. "Physically, yes. Spiritually, no.

Reach out and touch faith.

it. I likened it to the intimate version of Doug's Tell me what you listen to and I'll tell you what you are theory. This was: Tell me who you fuck and I'll tell you what you are. Spiritual duplicity. "Choice betrays character," I said. "That's not true.

Our connection is for the advancement of the kingdom, and sometimes the kingdom has to be taken by force.

Oh, he is really trying my salvation right now, because I feel a cussing demon getting ready to rise up and attach itself to my spirit!

everyone in your life is temporary, except God.

Heaven is here when Time is not. To live without Time means to live without friction, with no wear and tear. That is the space of non-engagement, non-interference.

convictions and beliefs! .. what do they have to do with religion!

He would rather see you living a life that was honoring to Him, rather than making mistakes and repenting of them repeatedly.

Choosing between following God or not is not a matter of getting a ticket punched to heaven.

The task is to become church for them, among them and with them, and under Spirit of God to lead them to become church in their own culture.

The main thing that prevents us from understanding the Bible aright is not a lack of hermeneutical skills but our sin.

May heaven be in my eyes that sin might have less power upon my heart.

Wright talks about how, in his role as chaplain, he would talk with students about their beliefs. Many would defiantly announce to him that they did not believe in God. So he would ask them to describe the "God" they did not believe in. Usually, they described a remote, deistic "God". "I don't believe in that 'God' either," he would reply. And then he would begin to talk about Jesus Christ.

Jesus says the dish becomes clean because it expresses love. The cleanliness that counts is found in the heart (Mark 7:20–23). But Jesus's

We can pride ourselves on not letting our theology be infected by worldly ideas, but all the time our lives can be infected by worldly priorities. We can live for the treasure of earth and seek our security in that.

The main thing that prevents us from understanding the Bible aright is not a lack of hermeneutical skills but our sin. Our

Seeing God as our Father radically changes your attitude to religious duties. It turns religion into relationship.

Our actions don't make us Christians or make us more of a Christian or keep us as Christians—for our union with God is all his work. Our actions do make a difference to our enjoyment of God—for our communion with God (our enjoyment of our union with God) involves a two-way relationship.

know this, that when you cannot pray, Christ prays for you, and he prays that you may pray.