Quotes About Spirituality

Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.

We are co-composers of the universe. We are on-creators of the God that is creating us.

At Mayflower-Plymouth, we care about profit and growth. And just as much we also care about things like the health of the earth, Whole Foods plant based or I-Tal living, vegan or vegetarian living, holistic education, spirituality, human rights, money equity, social cohesion, liberty, family, human health and more. To us, Investing is more than profit.

There is a spirituality to money & we understand that at Mayflower-Plymouth. And that's why conscious people like to invest with us. That's why vegans and vegetarians like to invest with us. That's why people who understand the laws of attraction and karma and resonance and noetics like to invest with Mayflower-Plymouth.

Estamos crucificados; no como Dios, que lo fue en carne sobre una cruz, sino que estamos crucificados sobre el tiempo y el espacio.

There is no paradise except that which we create in the great tomb of the churches. There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.

The universe is a machine for making gods.

… the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Religion is a defensive reaction of nature against the dissolvent power of intelligence.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure. It is through it that I best succeed in expressing the almost religious feeling I have towards life.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I am finding that when I choose to let go of my sometimes petty and superficial wishes and trust that my life is precious and meaningful in the eyes of God something really new, something beyond my own expectations begins to happen for me. (Finding My Way Home)

if monasteries accepted the irreligious and permitted abstention from prayer, I'd become a monk.

A man who walks with God always gets to his destination.

If you would be pure, saturate yourself with the Word of God.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling except in the infinite; for the soul except in the divine.

There is nothing non-exclusive but the All; my end is communion with Being through the whole of Being.