Quotes About Spirituality

I don't meditate anymore, and I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist nowadays, though I do chant mantras here and there depending on the situation.

Nowhere else, perhaps, is the Quran recited so much and understood so little as in India.

My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.

I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.

I'm an assassin on the court. And at home, I'm a nun.

It's an oversimplication to say that more monks and nuns are the answer to the Joel Osteen-ification of Christianity... but it wouldn't hurt.

I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind.

I'm kind of kooky, but do I look like a religious nut?

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

Sometimes God calls us to help and support individuals who may be flawed in their own way. But then who is perfect anyway? We just have to be obedient and follow the prompting of our spirit and expect nothing in return.

God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

Ramadan is an important part of Islam, and when you are observing it, God is happy with you and you have to have a big celebration.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

I was obsessed with Jeff Buckley for a while - I was convinced that Jeff Buckley and I were communicating with each other through time.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

I'm not obsessed with angels but I do adore angels.

Yogis have human emotions, but the thing is not to let anger and doubt become an obsession.

My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.

India has a long history with devotional, even obsessive love, be it for a personal god or for your lover.

I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.