Quotes About Spirituality

In the country where I'm traveling - Tibet - people believe if they walk long distances to holy places, it purifies the bad deeds they've committed. They believe the more difficult the journey, the greater the depth of purification.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Scientists are beginning to pinpoint the brain regions that become active when one feels fusion with a "higher power," such as God.36 Perhaps this brain region is also involved in love.

I think there's more to God than the big beardy feller in the sky. I know that God is on earth, in people, in good deeds. God is in the big things, and the small things. He's under the fingernails of our daughters, and he's in all the kindnesses we show people. I know that what people call 'God's work' can be called 'lightening the burden' for another human being. My kind of God might be a bit different from yours, maybe that's all.

Do we identify with a criminal in that we too secretly long to be judged? Popularly, being 'judgemental' is ill thought of and resented. But what if we want our deeds, our natures, our very souls to be summed up and evaluated? A line to be drawn under our acts to date? A punishment declared, amends made, the slate wiped clean? A born-again Christian, trying to explain his new sense of freedom, once said to me, "All my debts are paid".

There should be no fear of death, for the death of the body is but a gentle passing to a much freer life

More and more I am learning to let go of urgency and to let my soul sink deeply and refreshingly into contemplation of the joy of the Spirit.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

I always knew He was there, but I didn't know His name.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

A version of the golden rule to do unto others as you would have them do unto you is present in every major religion for a reason. Relationships are the place where the mystical experience can become alive.

The women's movement has not found a way to reconnect comfortably with the religious impulse that was central to its origin.

Authentic religious expression for them was an experience of the soul and made no distinctions of gender. As Lucretia Mott said, "In Christ, there is neither male nor female." Gradually, I have realized the core of what set them apart for me. It is that they lived, more than most of us, from a place of wholeness. They were authentically themselves without amputations or edits.

The more I thought about it, the more it became clear to me that religion and feminism are different expressions of the same impulse toward making life more just and whole.

Personal religious experience is not necessarily the same as organized religious doctrine. My concern is that as a contemporary women we have lost the capacity to make this distinction.

If we don't tell our stories to each other, we lose the opportunity to find what binds us together, as human beings and spiritual beings.

Bisi, how could you, now? You know that when you pray, you are heard, if not by God, then by yourself. When you pray, you tell yourself what you truly want, what you really need. And once you know these things, you can do nothing but go after them. Sae you understand?

You can only take pictures like that if you're able to see ghosts.

St. John of the Cross gives the coda on this one: "In the evening of life we will be judged by love.

Psychologists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, found that the better educated and wealthier a nation is, the less likely its population is to believe in a higher being.

and a sense of being part of something bigger than yourself, like religion, or just being Danish for folk round these parts.

You are the holy Son of God Himself. Remember this and all the world is free. Remember this and earth and Heaven are one. Lesson