Quotes About Spirituality

This sort of rhythm schools us to "live from the heart" more minutes of the day. To talk to others is to also pray for them.

62: For G alone my soul waits in silence. He's running late, but my soul waits in silence. This is me, being silent. Out loud.

You see that I am a very little soul who can offer to God only very little things. — ST. THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX

134: 3-verse, all-purpose psalm: 1) Praise G. 2) Lift up your hands. 3) Be blessed. Would that religion were always this simple.

Everybody likes to go their own way- to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

We still have a long way to go. But we are moving in the right direction. If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution—and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.

THE OLD WISDOM When the night wind makes the pine trees creak And the pale clouds glide across the dark sky, Go out my child, go out and seek Your soul: The Eternal I. For all the grasses rustling at your feet And every flaming star that glitters high Above you, close up and meet In you: The Eternal I. Yes, my child, go out into the world; walk slow And silent, comprehending all, and by and by Your soul, the Universe, will know Itself: the Eternal I.

I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I'm out in nature. It's just something that's bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it's enough for me.

Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.

Niña mía, sal al mundo, camina despacio y en silencio, absórbelo, y con el tiempo tu espíritu, el universo, se conocerá a sí mismo: el Yo Eterno.

if they worked together physically, and united spiritually, they could achieve anything.

For me God was something within that allowed me, occasionally, to see.

You cannot appreciate your spirituality unless you appreciate your creaturehood. It is not a matter of rising above your nature, but of evolving from the full understanding of it. There is a difference.

I hope that this book will serve to release the deeply intuitive self within each of my readers, and to bring to the foreground of consciousness whatever particular insights will serve you most. As

you were not born yesterday. Your soul was not born yesterday, in those terms, but before the annals of time as you think of time.

Your psychologists are not able to think in terms of a soul, and your religious leaders are not able, or refuse, to comprehend it psychologically even to its simplest degree. Metaphysics and psychology have not met, in other words.

When one has been born and has died many times, expecting extinction with each death, and when this experience is followed by the realization that existence still continues, then a sense of the divine comedy enters in.

Often we try to contact 'our source,' or the universe, or God, or whatever while acting as if that creative force is everywhere except where we are; as if it forms all of nature but ourselves. But we are each our own contacts with the universe. We are the universe as it transforms itself into private persons. Somehow we open up inside, and what we are intersects with what the universe is.

The main point I want to make in this chapter is that you are already familiar with all conditions you will meet after death, and you can become consciously aware of these to some extent.

You will not become more spiritual by denying your flesh. This is the life you are living! Trust the living that flows through you. By doing so, other realities will make themselves known. They will add dimension and depth to your present reality.

It didn't occur to us. We had swum in the ocean of religion all our lives and not gotten wet.

Mama said that there was not going to be a bank robbery—the Lord wouldn't allow it. Frank didn't see why not, and Papa seemed to agree with him—he said, "Well, he's allowed plenty of 'em." Mama said that sometimes Satan got away with things and sometimes he didn't

It was the exact combination of the ephemeral and the eternal that a dying man needed to know about.

I'm sorry. I would have to disagree. The most important thing is getting right with the Lord, and then he