Quotes About Spirituality

Three parts of the Noble Eightfold Path fall within the training of s?la: right speech, right action, and right livelihood.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

the mystical faculty in me which produced those strange rushes or bursts of feeling

One of the aims of Tantra is to recognize the divine perfection of the world by seeing it as a mandala "a celestial mansion.

It is only when we live in accordance with the rule of God that our life is set in order," he declared a decade later; "apart from this ordering, there is nothing in human life but confusion.

A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Religion… is a man's total reaction upon life.

Religion… shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

To every created thing God has given a tongue that proclaims a future life.

Reading, like prayer, remains one of our few private acts

There is a deeper hurt than anything sustained by the body, and it's the wounding of the soul. It's the feeling that you've been abandoned by everyone, even God. It's the most alone you'll ever be. A wounded body heals itself, but there is a scar.

It seems to me, Buck, that if you can find peace in your heart, God's not far away.

Me, I love this land, the work. Never was a churchgoer. God all penned up under a roof? I don't think so. Ask me, God's right here. In the dirt, the rain, the sky, the trees, the apples, the stars in the cottonwoods. In you and me, too. It's all connected and it's all God. Sure this is hard work, but it's good work because it's a part of what connects us to this land, Buck. This beautiful tender land.

When I pray, Odie, I never pray for perfection. I pray for forgiveness, because it's the one prayer I know will always be answered.

All life is one weaving, one design by the hand of the Creator, the Great Mystery. All life is connected, thread by thread.

God's right here. In the dirt, the rain, the sky, the trees, the apples, the stars in the cottonwoods. In you and me, too. It's all connected and it's all God. Sure this is hard work, but it's good work because it's a part of what connects us to this land, Buck. This beautiful, tender land.

I know love. So if it's true, like Sister Eve says, that God is love, then I guess I believe.

Like the beads of that bracelet, all things are connected. The past, the present, the future. One long, beautiful work from the hand of Kitchimanidoo. You, me, those who have gone before us, and those who come after, we are all connected in that creation. No one is ever truly lost to us.

Only God is perfect, Odie. To the rest of us, he gave all kinds of wrinkles and cracks." She lifted her hair from her cheek, showing me the long scar there. "If we were perfect, the light he shines on us would just bounce right off. But the wrinkles, they catch the light. And the cracks, that's how the light gets inside us. When I pray, Odie, I never pray for perfection. I pray for forgiveness, because it's the one prayer I know will always be answered.