Quotes About Spirituality

There are people passing by in their cars unaware and unassuming but I'm praying they'll look over and watch me worship you.

I follow the scent of falling rain And head for the place where it is darkest I follow the lightning And draw near to the place where it strikes —NAVAJO CHANT

While I draw this fleeting breath, When mine eyes shall close in death When I soar to worlds unknown, See thee on thy judgment throne, Rock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee.

Nature is my God. I don't believe in the hereafter. This world is where we get all our punishment.

The heart also needs to breathe, and the breath of the heart is none other than the remembrance of God.

anything that we see in creation is due to reflected light. And all light comes from God.

if we want to change our world, we do not begin by rectifying the outward. Instead, we must change the condition of our inward.

Somewhere on earth there is a door reserved for each soul, and one day each of us will walk through that door never to return to this life again. Where that door is and when we will walk through it are unknowns we must live with and prepare for. Upon death, all of this -- this whole world and all of its charms and occupations -- will become as if it were all a dream.

The cure for hatred is straightforward. One should pray for the person toward whom he feels hatred, making specific supplications that mention this person by name, asking God to give this person good things in this life and the next.

A hadith states, "Anxiety is half of aging." Another hadith states, "Righteousness will lengthen your life.

This implies that purification is a lifelong process, not something that is applied once and then forgotten. Purity of heart never survives a passive relationship. One must always guard his or her heart.

Imam Ab? al?asan al-Sh?dhil?, a thirteenth century scholar, once prayed, "O God, make my bad actions the bad actions of those whom You love, and do not make my good actions the good actions of those with whom You are displeased.

When people are completely immersed in the material world, believing that this world is all that matters and all that exists and that they are not accountable for their actions, they affect a spiritual death of their hearts.

One aspect of traditional medicine related to a spiritual cosmology—whether this tradition was Greek, Chinese, or Arab—is the belief that too much food harms the spiritual heart and, in fact, could kill it. It was commonly believed that people who eat in abundance become hardhearted.

The Imam posits that the treatment of wantonness is to intentionally experience hunger and to reflect seriously on death and the Hereafter.

Vücudumuzdaki hücreler oksijene ihtiyaç duyarlar, bu yüzden nefes al?r?z ve nefesimiz kesilirse ya?ayamay?z. ??te bunun gibi, kalbin de teneffüse ihtiyac? vard?r ve kalbin nefesi Allah'? "anmaktan" ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir. O olmadan manevi kalp hayatta kalamaz. ??te vahyin ve kutsal metinlerin varl?k sebebi de, bize kalplerimizin beslenmeye muhtaç oldu?u gerçe?ini hat?rlatmakt?r.

Imam M?lik said that to seek out Paradise is more than acceptable, though the motivation behind worship should ultimately be solely for the sake of God and fulfillment of His commands.

?nsanlar aras?nda en yüksek dereceliler, hiçbir ?eyin kendilerini Allah'? anmaktan al?koyamad??? kimselerdir. "Onlar ayakta dururken, otururken, yanlar? üzerine yatarken Allah'? zikredenlerdir.

Peygamber efendimiz "Lezzetleri yok eden ölümü s?kça hat?rlay?n?z" buyurmu?tur. Ölüm tefekkürü, kalbi bo? i?lerden temizleyen manevi bir egzersizdir.

Hz Ali, "insalar uykudad?r, öldüklerinde uyan?rlar" buyurmu?tur.

Scholars have said that if you want to know whether or not your heart is hard, then look at your eye. If it is dry and unmoved to tears, this is an indication of a hard heart. This is called jum?d al-?ayn or "an unmoved eye." A person who has sympathy and softness in the heart is said to have a moistened eye.

Kalbini canland?rmak isteyen kimse, ona Rabbiyle sessiz karanl?kta vakit geçirme imkan? vermelidir, iki rekat dahi olsa.

One should instead desire what will serve one's Hereafter.

When God's moving his hands through your life, you had better sit up and take notice