Quotes About Spirituality

The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror.

God is more generous than men and will measure them by a different standard.

Soy esa torpe intensidad que es un alma.

Por el amor, que nos deja ver a los otros como los ve la divinidad.

Agustín había escrito que Jesús es la vía recta que nos salva del laberinto circular en que andan los impíos;

Algo de sacerdote había en él y también de marino.

Since then my loneliness does not pain me, because I know my redeemer lives and he will finally rise above the dust.

The ascetic, for the greater glory of God, degrades and mortifies the flesh; Judas did the same with the spirit. He renounced honor, good, peace, the Kingdom of Heaven, as others, less heroically, renounced pleasure.

Un gran libro como la Divina Comedia no es el aislado o azaroso capricho de un individuo; muchos hombres y muchas generaciones tendieron hacia él. Investigar sus precursores no es incurrir en una miserable tarea de carácter jurídico o policial; es indagar los movimientos, los tanteos, las aventuras, las vislumbres y las premoniciones del espíritu humano.

Pensó que la felicidad, como el bien, es un atributo divino y que no deben usurparlo los hombres.

No necesito hablar Ni mentir privilegios; Bien me conocen quienes aquí me rodean, Bien saben mis congojas y mi flaqueza. Eso es alcanzar lo más alto, Lo que tal vez nos dará el Cielo: No admiraciones ni victorias Sino sencillamente ser admitidos Como parte de una Realidad innegable, Como las piedras y los árboles.

Creo que mis jornadas y mis noches se igualan en pobreza y en riqueza a las de Dios y a las de todos los hombres. ('Mi vida entera', Luna de en frente - 1925)

la Regla recordaba que nadie debía conquistar un reino si antes no conquistaba su propia alma. Teóricamente, cada templario debía antes conquistar su alma para Dios. La estancia en la Orden suponía una guerra personal contra el mundo, el demonio y la carne. Sólo hombres con paz en su alma podían ser guerreros. Si las pasiones habitaban en nuestros corazones, iríamos a la guerra acompañados de nuestras pasiones.

It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the divine is degraded to a functional part of the workaday world... then it is no longer devotion to the divine, but an attempt to master it.

The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God Himself, and which is the aim and purpose of all that happens in the world.

No, the contrary of acedia is not the spirit of work in the sense of the work of every day, of earning one's living; it is man's happy and cheerful affirmation of his own being, his acquiescence in the world and in God—which is to say love. Love that certainly brings a particular freshness and readiness to work along with it, but that no one with the least experience could conceivably confuse with the tense activity of the fanatical "worker".

Worship is either something "given", divine worship is fore-ordained—or it does not exist at all.

The efficacy of prayer consists in a cognitive-spiritual catharsis, which purifies man of the most hideous untruth and deception, namely, the pretension that he belongs to himself and that he is his own lord.

What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God's special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is nonessential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord.

There's something bigger in the world than us, a thing that warms us, though it doesn't warm itself

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)