Quotes About Spirituality

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Let light and love and power and death fulfil the purpose of the Coming One.

The healing principle is within man himself. Man's power to heal himself, or extend his healing power to others, is measured by his awareness of God in him.

Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God's power or presence or purity.

I know personally the transforming power of the Word of God-it's changed my life.

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.

I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.

It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.

Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

There is power in corporate fasting and power in corporate praise.

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

Modern witchcraft, she'd learned, was simply a religion that reveres nature.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

Where I come from if a man can't think of anything to pray about offhand, why, there is no need of him praying.

If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time.

Marilynne Robinson's Gilead,

I'd read in Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith,

the book, Lamott says the two best prayers are "Help me, Help me, Help me" and "Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

It was like before I was in a noisy church in a big city. Now it's like I'm in a beautiful monastery that no human has visited for a thousand years.

Well, it's like this," began Mother, "When you die you go and live in another part of London. And that's it." ~ North London Book of the Dead

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

I have seen groups of people overcome incredible odds as they became aware they are participating in a cause beyond self and sense the movement of the inexorable which comes from unity. Violence is not inevitable. War is not inevitable. Nonviolence and peace are inevitable. We can make of this world a gift of peace which will confirm the presence of universal spirit in our lives. We can send into the future the gift which will protect our children from fear, from harm, from destruction.11