Quotes About Spirituality

Razlog naše povezanosti s Allahom ne leži u kako zapadnjaci tvrde teškom našem siromaštvu, nego u ?injenici da bismo više od svih ostalih željeli saznati što nam je uloga na ovome svijetu i što nas o?ekuje na drugome.

The human machine is the only medium by which the soul and the mind connect with the material world, and this marvelous mechanism, this temple Beautiful, should be kept in the superbest condition, for whatever mars it mars the soul's expression. M In our present system of education we are taught nearly everything except the very thing that we ought to know most about—the art of living. The schools and colleges teach scores of things that we never use directly in practical life

Dig, dig the foundation deep, young man. Plant firmly the outer wall; Let the props be strong and the roof be high. Build it well, whatever you do; Build it straight and strong and true; Build it clean and high and broad; Build it for the eye of God.

Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.

The Gods we worship write their names on our faces." The face is carved from within by invisible tools; our thoughts, our moods, our emotions are the chisels.

Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.

it made him want to sing hymns he'd never even heard before

It is not the rituals of worship that please the gods.

And the voice of God was in the whirlwind after all, said Thor

I have never resisted the Lord in my life, Sister LeSueur, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

In fact she's a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder.

Most scientists believe in God," said Sel. "Certainly most of us here.

How suddenly we find the flesh of God within us after all, when we thought that we were only made of dust.

So he re-entered the prayer that he thought he had closed, and added the phrase that he had deliberately left out when he was on his knees: Thy will be done.

Why don't you speak to me, O Gods! she cried out

How quickly we find the flesh of God within us all, when we thought that we were only made of dust.

A pure soul must never grow attached to any one thing.

Don't you? said Father. To spare the rod is to spoil the child---God has told us how to make our children pure from the moment they achieve accountability until they have mastered their own discipline. I strike my son's body to teach his spirit to embrace the pure love of Christ. You will teach him to hate his enemies, so that it no longer matters whether his body is living or dead, for his soul will be polluted and God will spit him out of his mouth.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?