Quotes About Spirituality

I stepped back and looked at all the people as they continued to weave in and out, around and around, faster and faster until they were one blur, until they were One. And then I knew what Bubbe meant. Here, was God.

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

Kenneth Copeland: «Como creyente, tiene usted derecho a dar órdenes en el nombre de Jesús. Cada vez que se apoya en la Palabra, está ordenando a Dios hasta cierto nivel porque es Palabra de Él» (Our Covenant with God [KCP Publications, 1987], p. 32).

The Bible is a rock of diamonds, a chain of pearls, the sword of the Spirit; a chain by which the Christian sails to eternity; the map by which he daily walks; the sundial by which he sets his life; the balance in which he weighs his actions. —THOMAS WATSON

Jakie niebo? Jaki Bóg?! Ty nie widzisz, co si? dzieje? Ty nie widzisz, ?e Boga ju? dawno tu nie ma? A je?eli nawet jest – staruszek zni?y? g?os – to on jest po ich stronie.

God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

The voice of my Beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills" (Song of Solomon 2:8).

A life devoted to trifles, not only takes away the inclination, but the capacity for higher pursuits. The truths of Christianity have scarcely more influence on a frivolous than on a profligate character.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.

You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your Maker as it should be, for after all, that, as you must know, is the most important thing in this life.

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart

A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.

The only thing that can bring unfailing joy to the soul is to understand and know God. Everything depends on what He is. He has created us and put us in our present environment, and we are absolutely in His power.

Tap?naklar?n ihtiÅŸam? ve Tanr? tasvirlerinin sanat?, 'humus' tabakas?ndan yukar?ya besleyici bir g?da ta??yabilecek olan 'kökler' fikrine izin vermez. Bu g?da tam da binalar üzerine bina, tasvirler üzerine tasvir ederek çekildiÄŸi düÅŸünülen s?n?rlar?n d???nda b?rak?land?r.

everything in the so-called world of nature is meant to lead us back to God. In that sense, created matter is meant to serve eucharistically. By treating the world as a eucharistic offering in Christ, received from God and offered to him, we are drawn into God's presence.

It is the proper function of the theologian to go back and forth, like the angels on Jacob's ladder, between heaven and earth and to weave continually new connections between them.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Deus é bom em salvar almas, mas o temos mantido fora de nossas grandes decisões sobre educação, ciência, política, etc. (p. 32)

We dwell in the place in which we are not traveling but are at home. The landscape of God's self-revelation in Jesus Christ is our home. It is a landscape that we are never finished exploring, for new prospects are always emerging. Nevertheless, it is familiar to us and becomes all the more familiar the longer we reside there.

The Fathers of the Church say that prayer, properly understood, is nothing other than becoming a longing for God.

The theme, then, that will be with us throughout this study is the reciprocal relationship of God's transcendence and God's immanence;

God is so wide that, within his spaciousness, even the longing for unfulfillable longing can soar freely.