Quotes About Spirituality

I never had a biological sister, yet the more closely I work with women in the Church, the more surely I know there is a spiritual sisterhood.

They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out.

What you offering? You scratch my soul, you know, I'll scratch yours. Tit for tat, darling. So what you been in? We all like a bit of theology here, love, no need to be shy." He licked his lips. "Give us an afterlife, go on.

To be damned by the devil is to be truly blessed.

Perfect morality can be declared and lived up to only by him who has sought to live and discover his real identity with the Self, which is ONE-WITHOUT-A-SECOND, EVERYWHERE, IN ALL BEINGS AND FORMS.

Man awakened to the Self's Glory is God; God forgetful of His own glory is the deluded man!

M????kya? eka? kevala? mumuk?u??? vimuktaye).

No j?va is ever born; there exists no cause to produce it. That is the highest Truth, where nothing is ever born'.

They (wise people) speak of the indestructible ASHWATTHA tree* as having its roots above and branches below, whose leaves are the

Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.

SURRENDER—Pray Psalm 139:23–24: Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Commit to respond to whatever the Holy Spirit reveals to you.

If I could sum up what the Bible teaches about giving in one statement, it would be this: Generous living produces emotional happiness.

Your priority in life should be a relationship with Christ, not an agenda for him.

Just as we cast off worn clothes and wear new ones, when the time arrives, the soul casts off the body and finds a new one to work out its karma. Therefore the wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead.

Try to remember that you are the instrument and I the doer. If you can hold on to this, no sin can touch you. Instrument

The herbs and chants weren't working because of my anger towards Ram. In some dark part of my soul, I wanted him to suffer.

Perhaps we are always alone, from the time we leave the safety of our mothers' wombs until the time Waheguru gathers us to Himself.

The goddess doesn't care how many minutes you spend in front of her," he said. "Only how much you want to be here.

Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him— into the very earth and air and water—until there's nothing else.

Just as we cast off worn clothes and wear new ones, when the time arrives, the soul casts off the body and finds a new one to work out its karma. Therefore the wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead. I

Why was it that our holy men who made a big deal of giving up so many things—comfort, fame, family—couldn't seem to give up their tempers?

Where women are honored, there the gods are pleased.) —Manusmriti 3/56, 100 CE

When Arjun asked why man found himself driven to wrongdoing in spite of good intentions, Krishna replied, Because of anger and desire, our two direst enemies. How

If there is one thing his story has taught me, it is that when all the dross is melted away from the human heart, only gold remains.